TY - BOOK ID - 315871 TI - Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment network PY - 2009 SN - 9780415772389 9780415772396 9780203881538 0415772397 0415772389 0203881532 1135980934 1281977330 9786611977337 9781135980887 9781135980924 9781135980931 9781281977335 6611977333 1135980888 1135980926 PB - New York, N.Y. Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Computer. Automation KW - Polemology KW - United States KW - War KW - War games KW - Imaginary wars and battles. KW - Military-industrial complex KW - Mass media KW - War in mass media. KW - Mass media and war KW - World politics KW - Guerre KW - Jeux de guerre KW - Guerres et batailles imaginaires KW - Complexes militaro-industriels KW - Médias KW - Guerre dans les médias KW - Médias et guerre KW - Politique mondiale KW - Simulation methods KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Méthodes de simulation KW - Aspect moral KW - Etats-Unis KW - Military policy. KW - Politique militaire KW - Médias KW - Guerre dans les médias KW - Médias et guerre KW - Méthodes de simulation KW - War games. KW - Simulation methods. KW - War and mass media KW - War in mass media KW - War and morals KW - Imaginary battles KW - Wars and battles, Imaginary KW - Battles KW - Imaginary histories KW - Kriegsspiel KW - Wargames KW - Military art and science KW - Military maneuvers KW - Simulation games KW - Tactics KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - International relations KW - Mathematical models KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:315871 AB - Virtuous War is the first book to map the emergence and judge the consequences of a new military-industrial-media-entertainment network. James Der Derian takes the reader from a family history of war and genocide to new virtual battlespaces in the Mojave Desert, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and American universities. He tracks the convergence of cyborg technologies, video games, media spectacles, war movies, and do-good ideologies that produced a chimera of high-tech, low-risk ‘virtuous wars’.In this newly updated edition, he reveals how a misguided faith in virtuous war to right the wrongs of the world instead paved the way for a flawed response to 9/11 and a disastrous war in Iraq. Blinded by virtue, emboldened by technological superiority, seized by a mimetic terror, the US blundered from one foreign fiasco to the next.Taking the long view as well as getting up close to the war machine, Virtuous War provides a compelling alternative to the partisan politics, instant analysis and technical fixes that currently bedevil US national security policy. ER -