B efore The Hurt Locker made stars out of its leading men, Anthony Mackie and Jeremy Renner, Jarhead saw two Hollywood bona ...

For those unfamiliar with the newly streaming film, Jarhead is based on the book of the same name by Anthony Swofford. It ...

Jarhead also presents wild scenes that probably could happen in combat units, but strips them of the context that might explain how they’re more than sheer lunacy. In Swofford’s platoon, the ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is ...

Toward the end of “Jarhead,” Anthony Swofford’s 2003 memoir about the 1991 Gulf War, the author argues that those who “have never fought” have no right to praise the purity of war and ...

Besides just being one more war film, “Jarhead" has made an attempt to separate itself from its predecessors. While almost every other film about war has been either a rousing action flick that ...

“Jarhead” focuses on U.S. Marines, but the experiences of soldiers at war is universal, Mendes said. British, Spanish or any troops could have been affected in the same way.

Instead, “Jarhead" is a fitfully engaging portrait of the boredom of war, a “Full Metal Jacket" for Generation Xers who feel cheated by the currents of history.

“Jarhead” by Anthony Swofford In this self-lacerating memoir, an ex-Marine sniper who fought in the Gulf yearns to escape from the myths of warfare and the sadism of military life.

Jarhead Anthony Swofford was a Marine sniper in the first Gulf War. His no-holds-barred memoir, Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, ...