world war 2?

The changes in the law at present are without precedent in many, many areas... in my opinion as an ex-military man and a very keen military historian (particularly about terrorism), they show a complete lack of understanding at a political level as to what a successful hearts and minds strategy means. In fact I'd be tempted to say the politicians are doing exactly the opposite to what that strategy implies - with all the consequential results you'd expect.

As a result WW2 photography is everywhere... and any budding terrorist would get just as much if not better reconnaissance information from looking at Google Earth. Yes, there were restrictions of course but they weren't so much along the lines of not being able to take images in quite obviously public places, more about shooting in sensitive military locations and the like.

Almost the entire history of World War 2 is captured in photographs. It is one of the most photographed wars in history. A lot of people felt it necessary to take pictures of the Nazi offenses so that people would understand the level of brutality.

this is 2008 not 1945.....a lot has changed over the years.