From Game Boy To Armageddon ~ Link Between Video Game & War Industries (2012)

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"From Game Boy To Armageddon ~ Link Between Video Game & War Industries"
Uploaded Aug 6 2012
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War games are as old as military history but something has begun to change as war and play converge to create what some call the 'military entertainment complex'. Ken Hollings pushes the button on this latest phenomenon.

Men have always played at and with soldiers. Gaming has been an essential part of warfare and by the 19th Century it had been developed into the sophisticated "Kriegspiel", derived from the still influential theories of Von Clausewitz and played at military colleges in both Europe and America. These war games then became real games for table-top strategists by the early 20th Century. A remarkable synergy developed between colleges of war and devisers of such games, particularly in America. And in the think tanks of the RAND Corp gaming theory was used intensively to plot the future of war and nuclear destruction.

But from the late 1970s computer strategy games started to form a powerful loop between gamers and warriors. With the creation of the SIMNET, the military began to develop hugely powerful simulators and now convergence is taking place between military and the entertainment industry. Some say we are living in what Stanford Professor Tim Lenoir has called 'the military entertainment complex', with military functions increasingly taking place online, using simulation for training and in the treatment of soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. But is this new realm of war truly a revolution - the shape of things to come - or just more virtual bangs for real bucks?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qps1j

"It's a great training product. I've had 'em link the Xboxes together and the sergeant will actually train his teams with the Modern Warfare game."
---- Call of Duty representative, lead military adviser, lieutenant colonel, Hank Keirsey
http://youtu.be/J14wdIsyYqk

"60-70% of Army Video Game Simulation Technology in Our Kids Homes Today",
(like CryEngine 3) ----Military contractor, Intelligent Decisions Director, Floyd West
(source: http://youtu.be/ZUeP2i-VVyg)

US Army spending $57 million on military simulator using CryEngine 3
https://www.vg247.com/us-army-spending-57-million-on-military-simulator-using-cryengine-3

Politics and Hollywood's images are linked. They reinforce one another. Policy enforces mythical images; mythical images help enforce policy. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, has said, quote, "Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA," end-quote. - JACK SHAHEEN, director of Reel Bad Arabs

GamePro:Games are most effective Army recruitment tool
http://youtu.be/Qawe8R9LFc4

RECRUITING CHILDREN INTO THE US MILITARY Pentagon's Child Recruiting Strategy
https://www.ringnebula.com/Oil/recruiting-children.htm (404 as of June 9 2022)
(six in ten current US soldiers entered the military as teenagers)
Project Censored 2009 - Recruitment Toolbox: Movies, Toys, TV, And Computer Games
http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/tfic6...

After You Play, Before You Enlist! Army PR & Video Games (@ Elementary Schools)!
http://youtu.be/IpEzhmYJqsI

RETURNING FIRE: Interventions in Video Game Culture
Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6C7789075C00895A

Violent Video Games Harm Children's Brains Study Finds
http://youtu.be/vrI9G1QClK4

1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-88Ntc_DZA&t=0s

Psalm 11:5
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalm 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
http://linkbun.ch/fl90