So, the more I think about this game, the more I think it actually might be the most effective (if it's possible for it to even be effective in the first place) anti-war game so far solely on account of depicting it as it is. The interviews from way back talk about how much of the game is a mostly accurate simulation of soldiers in the field, not just in terms of combat, but also the sheer frustration, stress and paranoia outside of it. If the interviews were to be believed, it paints war as ugly and pointless literally by just presenting it as how it is in reality, with none of the dramatization, and it does so through the lens of the actual soldiers, and not the civilians.