It's one of those things that only had the impact it did because of the time in which it was released. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy." Thankfully we have terrorists now. George Kennan argued that "Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military–industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Also, people have been noting the MIC and the danger it poses for literally decades. I don't think the MIC is the main target of Spec Ops but I don't think it escapes criticism. The tools of exploitation and the idea that they were doing something good is how all the protags to these stories begin, and they don't end well. Konrad and his troops arrived in Dubai to 'help' but were on their way back from a war in Afghanistan, a colonialist American war which made billions for the MIC. The profit off of war itself rather than the products of that war is arguably the most American innovation on the West's colonial process, and Spec Ops: The Line notes this. They insist we need to exploit more people and their resources in order to sell more tools of that exploitation. We make money by exploiting people and their resources, and people make a lot of money off the tools of that exploitation. Colonialism is inherently tied into the military industrial complex. Its this last one that I think is worth noting. Both are harsh critiques of war, racism, a variety of psychological themes, and colonialism. Spec Ops: The Line takes an enormous amount of inspiration from the book Heart of Darkness and the movie Apocalypse Now, which is a retelling of that book.
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