Welcome to Theater of War, a regular column analyzing the relationship between Hollywood and the U.S. military. Looking back at almost 20 years of Iraq War movies, the first thought that comes to mind ...
In 2009, director Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" -- an Iraq War action thriller following the deployment of a U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal unit under an increasingly erratic new team ...
The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass destruction, ...