There's still a living tradition of military oil paintings, which have a symbolic or stylized arrangement of realistically-depicted subjects; this is well becom

There's still a living tradition of military oil paintings, which have a symbolic or stylized arrangement of realistically-depicted subjects; this is well becoming familiar with. (There's some discussion of this subject in a book on the modern Japanese military by a female German author -- I don't remember the book's name.) Also interesting, for modern war depicted in a traditional style: Afghan war rugs. The classic "red-figure war rugs" depict the Soviet war, but fighting never really stopped in Afghanistan, and neither did depictions of the fighting in traditional Persian-style carpets.