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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
What's wrong with "The war in Iraq"?
In the old days we had things like "The Korean War"... "The War in the Pacific"... or the aptly named "Vietnam War"?
Why do they have to have code names at all? Why not just descriptive names?
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Here is what I am thinking (I don't consider myself strong in historical specifics, but this seems to make sense to me):
Back in those days, there were still different names for the missions the military undertook, but the names were used more exclusively amongst the military officers and troops themselves, and not as the name reported to the general public.
The public was more accepting of terminology that included the word "war" because at the time the public was more willing to understand the notion that sometimes it was not their place to judge and that they didn't understand enough of what was going on to be able to disagree with the war.