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"Virtuous War is a road trip into the cyborg heart of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network. James Der Derian takes the reader from a family history of war and genocide to new virtual battlespaces in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Orlando's Simulation Triangle. We travel with the author to the Army's Advanced Warfighting Experiment in the Mojave Desert, the Marine's Urban Warrior occupation of the San Francisco Bay area, and the staging areas of the Kosovo air campaign in Italy.
Der Derian reveals a world in which Marine fire-teams train on the video game Doom, the Navy redesigns a ship's command center as the "Disney Room," and the Army builds a "Holodeck" at a California university. Computer simulations, cable news coverage, and feature movies all blur and converge in this new virtual alliance of the military, the media, and the entertainment industry."--BOOK JACKET.
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Moral and ethical aspects, Military-industrial complex, Military policy, Moral and ethical aspects of War, Mass media and war, Imaginary wars and battles, Mass media, World politics, War in mass media, Simulation methods, War, War games, War, moral and ethical aspects, Mass media, united states, World politics, 1989-, United states, military policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Military Science, HISTORY, Military, Other, Guerra, Métodos de simulación, En los medios de comunicación social, Industria del armamento, Aspectos morales, Política militar, Massenmedien, Kriegsspiel, Virtuelle Realität, Ethik, Krieg, War--simulation methods, War--moral and ethical aspects, Military-industrial complex--united states, Mass media--united states, World politics--1989-, U21.2 .d347 2001, 355.02Places
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"In the high Mojave Desert, a pale imitation of trauma brought memories of my grandfathers' wars back to the surface."
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