The casualty is the journalist's negative stereotype of the military.

. . . there has been no bridge between two very different cultures, though they are not as different as one might think. One of the more successful campaigns in the current war on terror has been the assault on this divide. The idea of embedded reporters was a masterstroke, since the reporters have to go through training, live with the troops, and go through events with them. Just as their grandfathers did during WWII, these reporters see war oft unvarnished; they see the horrors inflicted by enemy regimes upon innocents; and, they come to question many of the unspoken assumptions that lie behind the undeclared war.