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I though this was quite interesting and connected to the topic when I was reading through Millennium by the historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. It is a caption accompanying a poster for the film Rambo. It depicts Rambo stripped to the waste and holding a rocket launcher. Below is the accompanying caption.
"A Rambo poster proclaims the virtues of "a crudely mythical draftee". It will be hard for the glactic museum-keepers, if this image survives, to believe that Americans found this self image flattering. The usual convention of war propaganda in the western tradition, in which a war is represented as a civilized defence against barbarous enemies, is here overturned. The American hero has become a naked savage, an instinctive killer, wielding a weapon like a gross phallus. The slogan, "No law can stop him" even discards the pretence of civilised constraint and implicitly defies the charge that American soldiers were guilty of war crimes."
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