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The draft had myriad problems, and the truth is that the military doesn't want to go back to a draft. I've been impressed by the professionalism of the all-volunteer military. Eric Kocher was leading a team and making life-or-death decisions. When I was 23, I could barely keep my apartment together. I'm impressed by the capacity of these Reconnaissance Marines. Eventually, no one will pay attention to these young men and what they are doing.

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But I'm getting pretty sick of people grafting their own politics onto the series or bringing their own preconceived notions to it. I think the Iraq War is the wrong war at the wrong time and that the strategy of pre-emptive warfare is flawed, morally and strategically. I don't think my sense of the war changed. I sat down with Simon and Wright to talk about creating the show.ĭid your opinions about the Iraq War change while making the film? The result is a series of cinemagraphic snapshots of war: bloody, obscene, and at times breathtakingly beautiful.

Yet every detail, from the contents of a Meals Ready to Eat package to the passages quoted from the Geneva Conventions, seems to have been vetted for accuracy.

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Generation Kill was filmed with professional actors (including Stark Sands of Day of the Dead and Lee Tergesen of OZ, among others) in Africa. Generation Kill is about the experience of one particular group of Marines in a particular combat zone, rather than The War Experience, and Simon has gone to great lengths to make it seem real. Separating politics from war seems, well, unrealistic, but he has a point. At a screening hosted by Campus Progress in Washington, D.C., Monday night, Simon seemed worn down by discussions of politics and war, saying that his goal with Generation Kill, his first HBO project since The Wire, is to show what life is like for Marines - no more, no less.

The show follows forty-some sergeants, corporals, majors, and other members of the First Reconnaissance Battalion who plan attacks, face enemy fire and search for homemade bombs.īut there are also men behind the scenes: Generation Kill is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Evan Wright of Rolling Stone and produced by David Simon, creator of another HBO show, The Wire. The real men behind Generation Kill, HBO's new miniseries about the 2003 Iraq invasion, are, of course, U.S.