Inhumane actions always have been and always will be a part of war.
Which is why we should never attempt to hide the inhumanity of war under the carpet.
If a democracy is made aware of all the facts and consequences of going to war, yet still chooses to go to war because it is the lesser of two evils, then so be it. But that can only be the case if the populace is fully aware of the true reasons of going to war, and is fully aware of the inhumanity of the consequences of wars.
One of the great advances of the internet is that it is very hard to censor the reality of war, and so diminishes the tendency to glorify war. But still our mainstream media shies away from showing what really happens in war.
If you can find it, try to watch the Al Jazeera film of the British bombardment of Basra in 2003. Shamefully, our own mainstream media did not broadcast it.