The Iron Triangle (film) of what it means to fight for one's country. Whether they be a simple farmer's son (Ho), a French mercenary (Jacques), or a simple soldier (Keene) these three men bring to light a gray view of war which reflects that there are many sides to the war than just "good" or "evil". The Iron Triangle (film) The Iron Triangle is a 1989 film about the Vietnam War shot in Sri Lanka and directed by Eric Weston. The story is based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong Soldier. This unique fact gives the movie a different perspective than many
Iron triangle (US politics) Iron triangle (US politics) In United States politics, the iron triangle comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups. The earlier known mention of ‘iron triangle’ was in a 1956 Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report as “Iron triangle: Clout, background, and outlook” and as “Chinks in the Iron Triangle?” Central to the concept of an iron triangle is the assumption that bureaucratic agencies, as political entities, seek to create and consolidate their own power base. In this view an agency's power is determined by its constituency, not by its consumers. (For these purposes, "constituents" are politically