Now we can even see some battles live streamed, but at the same time (counter)-intelligence operations can be directly viewed by the end user. As always the question of what we are seeing being spun with a false narrative or is it even real at all remains.
I saw the future and it was weird.
They get TikToked, countered within minutes, and then hunted down with long range weapons.
This is especially powerful against battaglione sized units, since their detachments are too small to bear the damage from few lost vehicles. If a convoy loses its sole fuel truck to ATGM, it's bye bye for them in such a wast flat open country like Ukraine.
However conflict tourism is still a thing even today.
I'm glad it is. In the early 90ies I was in SriLanka watching a genocide unfold in the South East that never went reported until mid 2000 where the Sinhalese killed Tamils most of them children and women. When they were done with them they shoved the dead bodies into stacks of truck tires and lit them on fire. You could smell the burning rubber miles away but despite the smell the purpose was getting rid of the evidence. (I thought it was strange because surely people would smell. Hell I was in the next village jumped onto my bike to understand what is happening. Everyone was in the streets - how would they cover it up in any case?)
There were billboards ever few km showing a dead tiger (pun to the LTTE) with an army boot stomping on its throat. It looked childish almost because it was hand-painted and badly so (typical of billboards you see in poor countries). The billboard read "only a dead tiger is a good tiger".
After this I went to buy newspaper nearly every day and couldn't believe none of this was ever reported. I asked people back in my home country if they had seen any news but nobody had. They did ofc always report hear about the horrific bombing by LTTE in Sinhalese territory, they talked about the horrors of these children who are so "brainwashed" to go to school and blow up a class full of Sinahlese kids. Western countries immediately issued a travel warning. but not a single page acknowledging what happened to the Tamils.
Personally I'd rather live in a world where I have the opposite problem: getting drowned by propaganda and needing lots of time and visiting many rabbit-holes sifting through the data just to get a vague idea of what might be happening: That's a lot better than the absolute dystopia of smelling burning flesh and tires but nobody who is interested in it. And even years later when you finally coped with it not being 100% sure if it actually happened. Like it was all in your head.
If my brother wouldn't have seen the same thing to confirm that it actually did happen I probably would have gone insane thinking my mind made it up.
What that means at the scale of real war is that populations, even informal militia, have a much greater ability to resist professional armies using similarly simple strategies. Cyberwarfare matters to this, too; and Ukraine is a particularly dangerous foe in this regard given the strength of their IT sector. In effect, it's become quite hard to do anything much with military offensives other than intimidate opponents and bomb some stuff.
It's astonishing to look back on reviews of battles from WWII and see how many costly blunders and accidental successes were made because of poor information and coordination. But that quality is also why "blitzkrieg" succeeded as a doctrine.