User blog comment:Battlefield4us/Is Atlas the real enemy?/@comment-25753103-20141011233042/@comment-2080691-20141014201338

Maybe Atlas isn't the one who turns, maybe the main character comes to the realization that they've been fighting for the enemy the whole time. The way Jonathan Irons has been depicted in the trailers, he's clearly antagonistic. Even from the first "Super Power for Hire" video, Sledge seemed to view the existence of PMC's as a scary thought. They depicted the operators as warriors who simply care about one thing and one thing only... money. They don't care who or what they're fighting for, getting paid is the objective.

Call of Duty has never portrayed soldiers as bad people, nor have they really gone to seek a deeper message than "soldiers fight for their country... the end". Maybe in this game though, they're trying to go for a darker message. Maybe these operators are completely blind that they're doing terrible things until one of them (probably Mitchell) realizes that what they're doing is wrong. Maybe a few soldiers from Atlas realize that they've been blinded by money and greed, and the only way to stop Atlas is for THEM to turn.