American soldiers and sailors could have won every battle, and every war, and prevented every attack, if they weren’t hamstrung by pussy politicians.
Every SpecOp paramilitary mission will be betrayed by a drunk State Department attache, or by a State Department secretary seduced by a cold-blooded assasin.
Other guarentees of death are saying, “I didn’t think I was going to make this one cause I had a dream that…” or “You killed my buddy, you killed my buddy, you dirty…”
Ultimately people watch war movies for the drama and excitement of combat, not for the “accuracy”.
And such a Special Ops mission will never just help things along in the local theatre. The Outcome Of The Entire War Will Hinge On Its Success.
If a soldier
he is dead meat.
French soldiers will dress well and fight poorly.
To be fair, everything except the air raid will apply to pretty much any movie that involves a poker game. As we all know, four of a kind of straight flushes show up every couple hands…
-Joe
Italian-American soldiers will fight like heroes. Italian soldiers … not so much.
It’s that Bronx/Queens upbringing.
-Joe
Heh, this reminds me of a hillarious random dialogue bit I overheard when my brother was playing Call of Duty 2 on his playstation.
“You go with Brooklyn and clear out that room!”
“But Sarge, I’m from the Bronx!”
“Shut up, Brooklyn!”
This is not cliche. It’s a military fact of life.
Fighter pilot’s mantra: “lose sight, lose the fight”. Any help from fellow pilots in this matter is greatly appreciated by all.
No, not smoked. Chewed.
Bad guys can not shoot. Americans are deadly accurate ,even on the run.
By Category:
Revolutionary War: Apparently, the whole war was balanced on a couple of junior officers ninja fighting during the height of the battle.
Civil War: The Average soldier seems to have been about 225 lbs and 40 years old.
World War 1: It doesn’t matter how quiet your sector is or what time of day it is; someone is opening up with the machine gun off in the distance.
Also: For some reason, the enemy trenches are always within direct machine gun range. Who let those guys build so close!
World War 2: Backpacks and webbing are apparently optional in certain movies.
Vietnam War: Apparently, it all came down to a car chase!
Gulf War: Yes, as a matter of fact, we are shooting.
What about Horatio Hornblower?
A short squad of Americans can charge uphill into a well-placed, dug in Nazi machine gun nest and wipe it out while only taking a single casualty.
Okay, this one went over my head. Leaving aside the issue of it being a cliche, what Vietnam war movie involved a car chase?
Have you not seen the ending of The Green Berets?
Commander Hornblower was English. Mr. Gruffudd is Welsh. Pretty sure they were different nations back then, though I have been known to talk out of my ass from time to time.
Not since around 1973. I didn’t remember any car chase.