I don't know if I can watch it
But I am going to try. Full Metal Jacket, Apocolypse Now and a few others all had obvious political underpinnings.
And a overly generous dose of Hollywood-itus.
I have the book, but have not read it yet.
And this comment
"In battle," the authors wrote, "our world shrank to the man on our left and the man on our right and the enemy all around.",
is spoken by a man who has been there, he knows of what he speaks.