Behind every scene in Top Gun, War Inc. steps up to take its bows
Entertaining? Yes. But also a certified fresh start for the military industrial complex, which gets a starring role.
Entertaining? Yes. But also a certified fresh start for the military industrial complex, which gets a starring role.
Like the third installment of the Stallone series, America is trying to reimagine itself while never acknowledging failures of the past.
The film fails to make the broader strategic critique: that states that are in no position to fight, shouldn’t — or risk losing it all.
Unfortunately, the American fantasy of consensual occupation helped sustain our very real post-9/11 wars for 20 years.