'Maximum Lethality': Pete Hegseth and the Interlocking Mechanisms of Alienation, Masculinity, and Militainment

INTRODUCTION There is an interlocking relationship between the military, masculinity and the movies. This “Militainment” as it is colloquially referred, reaffirms and strengthens the reciprocity of war and cinema. This began with early depictions of John Wayne style heroism of the early to mid1940’s, to the more robust verisimilitude of current conflict depictions on the silver screen. The…