What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops: The Line" (Patreon)

What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops The Line"

I have come to realize the body is its own pyre, that degree rises from within | Watch my exclusive video on Six Days in Fallujah by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller BUY MY BOOK: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/howagamelives Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on Six Days in Fallujah: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-does-six-days-in-fallujah-deserve-the-infamy Watch THIS video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-what-we-dont-talk-about-in-spec-ops-the-line Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobgellervideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Listen to my podcast about Spec Ops: The Line: https://open.spotify.com/episode/07Hyz8mrZ8CgIuY4yQgUc7?si=3209fad3005340d5 Watch Errant Signal’s video on Spec Ops: The Line: https://youtu.be/wlBrenhzMZI?si=2ho1l5RqlXOW-XXu Read “Killing is Harmless by Brendan Keogh: https://brkeogh.itch.io/killing-is-harmless Sources: “Race, Gender, and Genre in Spec Ops: The Line” by Soraya Murray: https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article-abstract/70/2/38/29239/Race-Gender-and-Genre-in-Spec-Ops-The-Line “War Bytes: The Critique of Militainment in Spec Ops: The Line” by Matthew Thomas Payne: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295036.2014.881518 “The Use of White Phosphorus Munitions by U.S. Military Forces in Iraq” by David Fidler: https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/9/issue/37/use-white-phosphorus-munitions-us-military-forces-iraq U.S. Department of State on the use of White Phosphorus in Fallujah: https://web.archive.org/web/20060104041818/http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive_Index/Illegal_Weapons_in_Fallujah.html “The Fight for Fallujah” in Field Artillery Magazine by Cobb, LaCour, and Hight: https://web.archive.org/web/20060104053204/http://www.tradoc.army.mil/pao/ProfWriting/2-2AARlow.pdf “Pentagon Reverses Position and Admits U.S. Troops Used White Phosphorus Against Iraqis in Fallujah” by Democracy Now (featuring quotes by Lt. Col. Venable and George Monbiot): https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/17/pentagon_reverses_position_and_admits_u “U.S. used white phosphorus in Iraq,” BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm Rain of Fire by Human Rights Watch (Documentary): https://youtu.be/wRuzEs9Y5KE?si=621QSY40-Zbzz6tp Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza by Human Rights Watch (Report): https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza The Human Cost of Incendiary Weapons and the Limits of International Law by Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/11/09/they-burn-through-everything/human-cost-incendiary-weapons-and-limits# Media shown: Spec Ops: The Line, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Apocalypse Now, stock footage from Getty Images and Reuters Archive Music Used (Chronologically): The Looters, The Lost Battalion, The Pit, Burning Courtyard (all from Spec Ops: The Line), Multiplayer Menu (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), Afterlife (Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare), Do I Look Okay To You, GP04, Human Cost (all from Spec Ops: The Line), Embassy (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019), The Lab (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019), Burning Courtyard (Spec Ops: The Line), Max: NJ (Max Payne 3), Dead (Max Payne 3), Mellifera (They Dream By Day), The Caves of Mercury (Kilian Flowers) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images and Reuters Archive Thumbnail and Graphic Design by https://twitter.com/HotCyder Description credit: “Napalm” by Quan Barry