Title Light it Up : the Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq / John Pettegrew

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Force projection and the Marine eye for battle -- Shock and awe and air power -- Network-centric warfare, sensors and total situational awareness -- "Shock and awe: achieving rapid dominance" and the Iraq invasion -- Kill boxes, litening pods and the 3d aircraft wing -- "Keep your eyes out," fair fighting, and memories of killing -- Of war porn and pleasure in killing -- Pornography is the theory, and killing the practice -- Classic Hollywood combat films -- Marine Moto on YouTube -- The Iraq War on television -- Fallujah, first to fight, and Ludology -- Ender's Game and the rise of simulation in military training, 1995-2005 -- From combat films to video games -- The value added to military training -- Fighting in the digitized streets of Beirut -- Counterinsurgency and "turning off the killing switch" -- Empathy, General Mattis and the profound paradox of Marine humanitarianism -- Haditha, acute stress, and the excesses of occupying force -- USMC literary culture and warrior ethos -- "Which way would you run?" -- Posthuman warfighting -- Marines in science fiction and in space -- The post-masculinist Marines and new optics of combat -- The gladiator robot and the critique of remote warfare -- Synthetic vision of war; conclusion and epilogue -- Biopolitics and the costs of war -- Digital culture and the computational marine -- Subjectivity lives and dies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject United States. Marine Corps. SUBJECT United States. Marine Corps fast Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011. Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Psychological aspects Combat -- Psychological aspects. Video games -- Social aspects War video games -- Social aspects Marines -- United States -- Psychology Optics -- Social aspects -- History -- 21st century Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century Military art and science -- Computer simulation -- Social aspects -- United States Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Moral and ethical aspects Strategic culture -- United States HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Combat -- Psychological aspects Ethics Psychological aspects Strategic culture Video games -- Social aspects Iraq United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781421417868 1421417863 1421417863

Other Titles Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq

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