Garland co-directed and co-wrote this intense, tightly packed narrative with Ray Mendoza, his “Civil War” military adviser, based on a 2006 surveillance mission in Iraq that went awry for ...

The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass ...

I knew from the first few seconds that “Warfare” was going to be a different kind of war movie. Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s film about a real battle in the Iraq War opens with a sexy ...

Then, it all goes wrong – the beginning of an agonizingly tense, bloody and chaotic reenactment of a real firefight that took place almost two decades ago in Iraq. Former Navy SEAL Tay Mendoza ...

The two co-wrote and co-directed the film, which reconstructs an incident from the Iraq War, in November 2006, when a routine mission by Mendoza and his fellow SEALs went dangerously awry.

Welcome to Theater of War, a regular column analyzing the relationship between Hollywood and the U.S. military. Looking back at almost 20 years of Iraq War movies, the first thought that comes to ...