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...titular Hart is actually Lieutenant Hart (Colin Farrell), an American soldier taken prisoner by the Germans near the end of World War II. His POW camp is ruled by an unintentionally humorous German colonel and Willis’ Col. McNamara. Shortly after Hart begins his stay at the camp, the arrival of two black pilots creates racial tension among the inmates of the camp. The uneasiness results in two deaths and a court-martial trial, in which Hart is called upon to represent and defend one of the black...
...star of the film is in fact Farrell, a relative unknown from Ireland who gives an impressive performance as the son of a senator who is shielded from the front line but not from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis’ colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position with...
...Col. David Fridovich calls himself a "quiet professional." But after 26 of years military, he's finding himself in the spotlight as the Army Special Operations Commander for Joint Task Force 510. That translates as the officer in charge of U.S. forces in the Philippines, deployed to help that country's army fight terrorism. The immediate enemy is Abu Sayyaf, a splinter faction of the wider Muslim secessionist movement in the southern Philippines. Years of fighting the Philippine military has reduced it to a group of around 80 fighters, mostly engaged in kidnapping and other forms of banditry. They currently...
...Americans have arrived to help. Special Forces personnel will soon begin patrolling Basilan island along with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Carrying only side arms, they're there as observers to guide the AFP to victory. Col. Fridovich spoke with TIME last week at AFP Southern Command headquarters...
...Col. Fridovich: We anticipate starting work with our counterparts by about the end of February, maybe a little bit earlier. We're only going to have about 160 advisers over on (Basilan). This is a training exercise, but we've got to face it a bit differently because this is the first time that the training has been done in a combat zone. There's no exclusions to it in terms of where we go and what we do, except that it's Philippine-led and we advise, consult and assist them as they require. There's some added risk...