Virtuous War
Subtitle: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813397948
Subjects: International relations; Theory of warfare & military science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; War; Military Science; Social Aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Imaginary wars and battles; Simulation methods; War games
First sentence: In the high Mojave Desert, a pale imitation of trauma brought memories of my grandfathers' wars back to the surface.
Description: "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.