US Navy

Fields of Fire is one of the greatest movies that was never made. A brutal but sympathetic portrait of the...

When James Webb approached the Pentagon to ask for assistance making his Vietnam war drama Fields of Fire he had...

When James Webb approached the Pentagon to ask for assistance making his Vietnam war drama Fields of Fire he had...

The DOD’s directive on working with Hollywood says that they can provide production assistance if it is deemed ‘in the...

The DOD’s directive on working with Hollywood says that they can provide production assistance if it is deemed ‘in the...

1994’s Clear and Present Danger is one of the most important movies in the cinema of the war on drugs,...

The Military, Movies and #MeToo

The Navy is soliciting contractors for bids for a project that would collect a massive 350 billion social media posts dating from 2014 through 2016 across at least 100 countries and multiple languages.

It is intriguing to examine the deployment and manoeuvres of US Navy warships, despatched by the Pentagon all over the world to perform pretty much the same task wherever they go — to attempt intimidation of those whom Washington regards as enemies.

After dramatic and patently scripted warnings of “Iranian aggression” by bellicose US officials, there then follows – conveniently enough – an alleged sabotage incident in the Persian Gulf region implicating Iran.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo poses with a straight face that his country doesn’t want war with Iran. His comments warp credulity given that American forces have suddenly escalated firepower in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of “responding” to alleged Iranian infractions.