Below is a compendium of Time Now posts on contemporary war fiction and film featuring special operators–SEALs, Green Berets, Ranger Task Forces, CIA operatives, and the like–in action in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Fiction:
Life During Wartime, On the Other Side: Nadeem Aslam’s The Blind Man’s Garden
Special Operations Old and New: Lea Carpenter’s Eleven Days
Grillin’ Chillin’ and Killin’ with the Military 1%: Aaron Gwyn’s Wynne’s War
Special Ops Bro-Hymn: Ross Ritchell’s The Knife
The Wild, Wild East: Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue
Will Mackin’s “Kattekoppen”: Surreal War Fiction
Will Mackin’s Bring Out the Dog
Making the SEAL Team SEAL-y: Literary Theory and Recent War Writing
Eleven Bang-Bang: Adam Kovac and Ray McPadden
War Adventure/Military Thriller
Film:
Zero Dark Thirty I: The CIA Goes to War
Zero Dark Thirty II: Special Operations
The American Sniper Situation: The Not-So-Secret Inclinations of Popular Taste
Does Anyone Remember American Sniper?
Hyena Road: Bullets-and-Bodies or Hearts-and-Minds?
Time Now: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Art, Film, and Literature 