What scares me is how vigorous and aggressive the military is over it's depiction. I'd like to think people form their own opinions based on sound research and thought but of course they don't, so I understand their concern. But punishing SEAL members for advising on a game? A game that is largely pro-military?
Look at Julian Assange. The information he released is fairly lame stuff. Yet the American government put a virtual fatwa out on him. Suddenly, dubious rape charges from years ago from Sweden suddenly appear. Senators were calling for a kill or capture order. There was more outcry to capture this one guy than the 50 Most Wanted terrorists who have actually killed people. All the attention shifted to his extradition and ignores the fact that the US government will seem to use any means of threat and intimidation to protect it's "secrets". Americans bang on about freedom of speech, then immediately set about attacking anyone who expresses an opinion it doesn't like. Anything left-wing gets labelled as some sort of liberal bias set to "undermine" the country (because that's what and why liberals do it, all plotting the downfall of republicans). Then on the otherside the republicans are painted as bigoted, religiously blinded, homophobic, racist nut-jobs. If anyone says anything worthwhile they get branded a traitor.
And this is what scares me. Why does the American government need to defend it's "secrets"? Sure, military equipment and patents are concern, but as the companies making this stuff make promotional videos on YouTube, I doubt that's what they're worried about. Current troop movements and numbers would be terrible as well, but none of concerns have anything to do with logistics.
That's not who they go after. They go after anyone critical of them.
And their justificaion is to hide secrets from "The enemy!" But who is that now? Terrorists, who's motivation for attacking America is revenge for their use and abuse in the cold war. But maybe now its revenge for the constant military barrage their countries suffer. Or maybe it's because America, the home of democracy and freedom, is desparately trying to rig the leadership of these countries to suit their needs? Why? So they can try make "the enemy" stop attacking them.
America constantly creates these "enemies" to promote the need to protect themselves. But, by and large, the reason they seem to have these enemies now is because of America doing the exact same thing for the last 60 years. Post Word War II they used communism for years to justify involvement in Guatamale, Iran, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Afghanistan. Legitimate or not the result has been a massive growth in anti-American feeling in those countries. Is it just me, or does nobody think it's crazy that the american military probably trained Osama Bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan?
I would have thought by now the average American would have said "No, we've had enough. We won't get involved. Anytime we get involved, we get blamed and people attack us". But I guess all those big American weapon manufacturers wouldn't sell much then. Don't forget, there are many other countries fighting alongside America right now, and very few of them garner as much hatred as the US does. Why is that? You have to ask yourself why does America have so many enemies? Why does it need to defend itself so fiercely? Why it's it's military so terrified of being depicted in any negative light?
Madness I tell you.