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The Outpost is a 2019 American war film directed by Rod Lurie, based on the 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper, about the Battle of Kamdesh in the war in Afghanistan. It stars Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, Will Attenborough, and Taylor John Smith.
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Of all the wars the United States has fought throughout the quarter millennia of its existence, the war in Afghanistan stands as the longest. As such, it was inevitable that, despite being overshadowed by the much more spectacular and politically charged Iraq War, it would become the subject of Hollywood films. Yet their numbers remain relatively small and, somewhat surprisingly, they tend to deal with real-life inc…More
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This must have been the first war movie I have seen that is solely focused on the life of soldiers in an outpost placed in a very hostile and dangerous country. The first thing I noticed when seeing the location of the outpost is that it had a very basic strategic disadvantage because it was located in a small valley surrounded by mountains. I am no expert in these topics but common sense would indicate that giving…More
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