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This might be too far into the "watching gameplay" side of things or not up your alley, but I remember watching through some Arma II videos by Jester814 on YouTube and enjoying them.

He was one of a number of members who play in a group that tries to stay in-character, act as if it were a real Marines operation.

https://www.506thir.net/

The 506th Infantry Regiment Realism Unit was founded in late 2014 by former members of the 15th MEU(SOC) Realism Unit. Many of our members are veterans and active duty military from around the world. The primary focus of the unit is light infantry combat in Arma Reforger utilizing real to life tactics, techniques, protocol, and communication.

While I do like some military history, I'm not really all that interested in light infantry tactics, so the content itself wasn't an immediate draw...but I wound up finding it fun to watch through the videos.

One of his ArmA II playlists:

• ArmA 2 - 15th MEU Official

He's also done ArmA III videos, which are obviously graphically-prettier, but at least in the few I watched

and I haven't gone back and looked recently

he didn't have larger numbers of coordinating players acting as larger, hierarchical military units, just a squad or maybe a couple of squads, and I didn't find it as interesting.

That being said, it's not something like Red vs Blue, which is content scripted purely for the viewer, not the people involved.

EDIT: Actually, I do remember a couple of large-scale ArmA III operations that he did. Just that there was a lot of smaller-scale stuff mixed in. That being said, could have been that when he was recording them, people hadn't switched to ArmA III yet

it was still a pretty new game then. I should really go back and see what the situation is now.