It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american.
That's before we even get into the "flag tax".
The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.
The Pentagon is just facilitating consumer demand with the handshake that they get to be the good guys, like John Wayne was when killing those other pesky non-white people.
Is this news to anyone at this point? I'm sure we all know it's not Koreans or Eskimos running Hollywood.
The whole concept is a feudal peasant propaganda going onwards like a zombie or a stray bullet, propelled onward through the centuries by absolute unthinking fools. Everyone except a royal essentially was stuck blaming some scapegoat for problems like the king's advisors but not the king himself without getting their whole family brutally murdered. In the European case that was generally the Jews but the Chinese and others had eunuchs because they didn't have any descendants to get offended on their behalf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprTo...