The modern generation have grown up with the "Peace Dividend", and don't want to know. I know people who will not buy newspapers or watch TV news. so they have no idea what's going on.
I instruct at my local RAFAC Sqn, last week I was talking to a group of the Civilian Instructors (ie the adult staff) and I mentioned the situation in Gaza. Cue blank looks from one and I had to explain the entire incident from 7 Oct onwards… he professed that he ‘did not read the papers or watch the news’. Ignorance of current affairs would appear to be fairly widespread.