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Agreed. Additionally, it's thematically popular that when part of the US military becomes the bad guy, it's usually limited to "those guys" and not the entirety of the Military. Typically "those guys" comes in the form of a well meaning but rouge unit, a General with a vendetta against an opposing force (i.e. hasn't gotten over the end of the Cold war), a traitor of some kind, an indifferent chain of command, etc etc.

These are things audiences will rally around. Behind Enemy Lines is an example[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Enemy_Lines_(2001_film)




What's a rouge unit?


One blush ;-)

[Moto7451 obviously meant rogue unit]


Oh, my guess was on rough. But then, I'm not a native speaker, so I'd better ask. (I was really hoping for some funny idiom involving rouge.)


Ah sorry, I shouldn't have said "obviously" -- that was a bit rude of me.




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