When characters change on screen it makes you feel better about yourself. You think 'Oh I change too I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter I text people I chat....
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?