We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.