This entire article seems like agenda-driven BS. I can totally believe that government entities have sought and occasionally succeeded at influencing some media

This entire article seems like agenda-driven BS. I can totally believe that government entities have sought and occasionally succeeded at influencing some media and entertainment messages but I don't see any proof of a vast conspiracy. There's much simpler explanations for all of it. People like hero stories. Studios would be making heroic soldiers without any prompting. And there's no shortage of successful movies about how bad war sucks. Hurt Locker springs to mind as something commercially and critically successful as an authentic portrait of war being hell.