Just because you write about WWIII and have American troops in it doesnt make you pro-US military. And the US military, while playing a central part, except in a few modules that Frank Frey wrote (who by the way is not one of those I would consider anti-US military in any way of the writers) plays a very inept part of the story.
With the exception of the performance in the RDF area and possibly Alaska the US military has one long string of failures in Twilight 2000. Their offensives in Europe all ended in defeat and reverse, usually major ones. And while the individual soldiers are portrayed quite well, their commanders are not.
And you can be pro-individual US soldier while being anti-US military - Democrats have managed that for a long time here in the US, supporting the individual soldier while tearing down US military decisions left and right.
And frankly any US division commander that refused an order to be sent to support the drive to drive the Mexicans out of Texas like the 84th Infantry did in August of 1999 would be court martialed and shot by any US govt, be it MilGov or CivGov. Thats basically cowardice in the face of the enemy. And CivGov didnt sign a peace treaty with Mexico or the Soviets.
Reality - CivGov would have replaced the commander immediately and told him to get his division to Arkansas immediately and do its job.
And having military commanders writeoff a whole Corps and choose to go home and do nothing with those men - no US commander would ever give that order.
So are the individual stories pro-US soldier when it gets down to that level - yes.
The overall timeline however and pattern of behavior of the US military and government in Twilight 2000 with how the majority of the game's writers deal with them is definitely anti-American in many ways.
Frank Frey, however, does a very good job of showing that the US military command structure actually knows what its doing.
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