A Few Good Men (1992) is a dangerous drama exactly because it is so convincing about how conspiracies develop over little things, but suggests that the American conscience prevails in the end, when that really isn't the case.
The factual sequence of events, and actual truth, these are very difficult to ascertain, and I don't buy for a minute that a prominent colonel's career would be destroyed over a private's hazing in peacetime, as we can see how difficult the abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan are to prosecute, and these are far graver tragedies than the back story in this script. The same could be said of any victim's testimonial, mine, or a hundred other bleeding hearts, and this is simply do to the way group dynamics work.
But the film also supports Foucault's observations about how we human animals increasingly mechanize our biological design for the sake of proficiency; it is the entire subtext of the conflict between the characters Cruise and Nicholson portray.
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