History, they say, is written by the victors. That has made documenting conflict, stretching from a small New York gallery more than a century ago to that cell phone in your pocket today, as much a part of war as the bullets, blood and boots it captures. The battle for Mosul, where media outlets have been streaming combat live over the internet, can put anyone deep inside the fog of war in real time. One thing quickly becomes clear to anyone who hasn’t spent time in a war zone: it gets pretty boring, pretty quickly.
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