The Duck of Minerva
I’m not sure what to say….
by Jon Western
8 November 2010, 1537 EST
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
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My students sent me this video link over the weekend because I have an intro lecture about how the US army's own video game, “America's Army 3” (AA3) provides a sanitized and glorified version of war that pushes militarization into childhood/adolescence.  Of course the game is almost superfluous when there are so many similar military fantasy games like Black Ops, SOCOM, etc.
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