The Military’s Missile Defense System Cannot Be as Good as It Says

The Defense Department is notoriously picky about films that depict military and national security issues, and understandably so. Many movies that feature the military get a lot of things wrong, including innocent flaws such as actors who are the wrong age for the rank on their costume, or scripts that invent procedures or terms that don’t exist. Sometimes, the Defense Department cooperates with Hollywood and provides advice; other times, it takes a pass especially if the subject raises some touchy issues. The Navy, for example, naturally didn’t want to help with Crimson Tide, deciding that the 1995 movie about a mutiny on a nuclear-missile submarine perhaps wasn’t in the best interest of the naval service.

Now the Pentagon is annoyed with the director Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House