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Virtuous WarJames Der Derian

Virtuous War

James Der Derian
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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…

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8 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2001
    Westview Press · 272 pages · 9780813397948
  • Hardcover · English · 2001
    Diane Pub Co · 249 pages · 9780756768256
  • Other · English · 2009
    Taylor & Francis Group · 330 pages · 9781135980900
  • Other · English · 2009
    Routledge · 9781281977335
  • Other · English · 2009
    Routledge · 330 pages · 9780415772389
  • Other · English · 2009
    Taylor & Francis Group · 330 pages · 9781135980887
Moral and ethical aspectsMilitary-industrial complexMilitary policyMoral and ethical aspects of WarMass media and warImaginary wars and battlesMass mediaWorld politics