What war was in the movie "Behind Enemy Lines"?

Question

I couldn't quite figure it out, not sure if it was counted as a war. Not even sure if its real. Help please.

Answer 1

Good question

Answer 2

dubya dubya 2. germans and russians

Answer 3

it's set in the Bosnian War that started in 1992.  :-)

Answer 4

it wasnt a war but a conflict betwween the russians and the boesnians

Answer 5

Wow, whoever said that the war is a fiction and Russia was the one fighting is such a freaking dumbasses.

The Conflict is based on the Bosnian War. The event about the massacre is true, and there are alot of mass killing and raping going on.

Answer 6

The Bosnian War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Enem...

Answer 7

A war the US wasn't in officially, i think they were on some sort of a peace keeping mission. Great Movie though.

Answer 8

it was the kosovo "crisis" the main belligerents were ethnic albanians in kosovo (the ethnic majority) and serbs. sean o'gready was shot down in his f16 in 1995. he lacked the proper rescue radios that were supposed to be issued in 1992

Answer 9

fiction.

Answer 10

Beginning in the 1980s the country of Yugoslavia began to break up.  Yugoslavia was a union of several Slavic or Baltic states.  By the 1990s civil wars erupted, and the USA was involved in some containment and peace-keeping efforts.  

The region is no longer Yugoslavia, but the countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.  Kosovo is partially recognized as independent.  

Answer 11

Air War over Bosnia.  Somewhat based on the O'Grady shootdown.  Major differences:

1- He was in an AF F16, in the movie it's a two-seat Navy F18

2- O'Grady was schwacked by an SA6, in the movie they're hit by an SA13.

3- The movie portrays the pilot  being executed; obviously totally fictional, as O'Grady was the pilot and only crewmember.

O'Grady later attempted a lawsuit against the studio because, and I'm being perfectly serious here: "the crews swore too much.  Thereby giving the public a false impression of me."  Apparently he didn't use foul language-maybe the first fighter-guy in US history not to swear.  (More likely he was worried about what the portrayal would do to his children's book sales).  The fact is the script was so rewritten, hardly anyone knew it was based on his story-the lawsuit was thrown out BTW.