Iraq war

The 2005 biographical war film Jarhead is one of a very small number of films set in the first Gulf...

On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I break down a 2016 interview with British political satirist Armando Iannucci by Chatham House,...

One of the veterans of the ambush in Sadr City in April 2004 has revealed that National Geographic’s film The...

Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of...

-by Sam HusseiniHere's a letter that was sent to Rob Reiner in April 2016. At the time, he was directing the film Shock and Awe which would be released the following year.

By Sam Husseini | March 21, 2019 Here’s a letter that was sent to Rob Reiner in April 2016. At the time, he was directing the film “Shock and Awe” which would be released the following year.  Dear Rob Reiner — I’ve of course enjoyed your work over the years. I recently tweeted “Finally saw ‘The […]

WASHINGTON (Opinion) — Sixteen years have passed and the memory of the Iraq War is distant for many, save for the millions of people — Iraqi and American alike — who saw their lives destroyed by one of the greatest lies ever sold to the American public.

The US Army provided extensive support to the National Geographic film series The Long Road Home, supposedly to ensure it depicted the real-life battle of Sadr City in a 'reasonably realistic' way. But Army emails that I obtained under FOIA show they were more concerned with the fact that a helmet chin strap was wrong in one scene than in the fact the series depicted the death of a soldier who actually died later in another mission.

Imperial logic I: External crises distract from internal ones

I recently joined Henri of Fortress on a Hill to discuss the National Geographic drama series The Long Road Home,...