Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American film directed by William Friedkin, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Guy Pearce. The movie, a military, political, and legal drama, is about Marine Colonel Terry Childers, played by Jackson, who is brought to court-martial on charges of disobeying the rules of engagement in a military incident at an American embassy in Sana''a, Yemen, resulting in the slaughter of many civilians by Childers'' men. The lead writer, James H. Webb, is a former Marine combat officer, lawyer and Secretary of the Navy. Webb and is currently the senior United States Senator from Virginia.