The Defense Department's Opposition to Showing War Crimes in a 2013 Film

Long Road Home makes Young seem petty, but it valorizes a colonel named Gary Balesky. The flattering portrayal may have been due to the fact that he was the chief of army public affairs when the script was reviewed. In the book the series is based on, the author writes that Balesky and his colleagues not only failed to anticipate the attack, they may have provoked it.