I think this film should be required as an experience of the present war in Afghanistan. I think the production by Junger and Heatherington is very good.
At the same time I have questions about what I see in the film. I know that according to some famous dictum it is impossible to observe something without changing the thing itself.
Nevertheless, I have spent a lot of time in my "sort of life" hanging out with combat troops in combat, ours, theirs, etc. and this film disturbs me in a number of ways.
This half platoon of parachute infantry and the officers who stuck them out on the end of a ridge finger in "apache" country for a year without apparent relief seem odd to me.
I am going to write some more about this after I see the film again and read the comments of the veterans who visit this place. pl
