US Army

The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...

The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
The post Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel first appeared on Spy Culture.

To stay that there has been some strange stuff coming out of the White House lately would be an understatement. If President Donald Trump knew a bit more about history, he would understand that countries that rent out their national armies to serve as mercenaries usually wind up holding the short end of the stick. There is the example of Pyrrhus of Epirus in the third century B.C., for whom the expression “Pyrrhic victory” was coined, and, more recently there was the British employment of 30,000 Hessian and other German soldiers in the American revolution.

Rambo: First Blood and Commando are almost twin movies, both centring on a highly skilled military veteran on some sort...

Rambo: First Blood and Commando are almost twin movies, both centring on a highly skilled military veteran on some sort...
The post Why did the Pentagon Reject Rambo, But Were Willing to Work on Commando? first appeared on Spy Culture.

The Vietnam war drama Platoon was recently inducted into the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, in recognition for...

The Vietnam war drama Platoon was recently inducted into the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, in recognition for...
The post Rape, Murder, Drugs and Racism: Why the Pentagon Rejected Platoon first appeared on Spy Culture.

Meanwhile, her fellow Democrats appear abysmally unconcerned about the human and financial toll.

Pearl Harbor (2001) is the perfect example of how to spend a lot of money making a terrible film.  Beset...

Pearl Harbor (2001) is the perfect example of how to spend a lot of money making a terrible film.  Beset...
The post ‘Navy nurses were proper ladies and proper ladies did not get “horny” in 1941’ – DOD File on Pearl Harbor first appeared on Spy Culture.