Paxman fails to recognise that people still sign up for the army, and that people still fight and die for their country, even having seen the reality of war. Perhaps these soldiers are more deserving of our respect, as they, having seen the horrors and hardships of war, still go and fight for their countries. Contrast this with the attitudes of the men who fought in the Great War. They had no idea of what they were signing up for, in fact, they thought, famously, that the war “would be over by Christmas”.