The U.S. Military: More Than Meets the Eye?

The article begins innocuously enough:

“Hollywood’s depiction of the U.S. military is often laughably inaccurate to many Americans who wear their country’s uniform.”

True enough. But then, in reference to Michael Bay’s Transformers:

“The Army has never fought giant robots, but if we did, this is probably how we’d do it.”

(This is the first and, I promise, last reference to Transformers on Culture Snob.)

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