Bureaucracies at war.

AuthorBalko, Radley
PositionBriefly Noted - The Wire - Television program review - Brief article

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David Simon and Ed Burns, co-creators of the celebrated HBO crime drama The Wire, have brought their seven-part miniseries about the first 40 days of the Iraq War to DVD. Based on the book by former Roiling Stone reporter Evan Wright, Generation Kill offers a hyper-realistic portrait of the Marines' elite First Recon Battalion as the unit led U.S. forces into Iraq in 2003.

Though both Burns and Simon opposed the war, the series is light on editorializing. Ever eager to skewer the absurdities of cherished institutions (as The Wire did so masterfully), Generation Kill is more a critique of bumbling military...

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