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Title: VIRTUOUS WAR
MAPPING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-MEDIA-ENTERTAINMENT-NETWORK
By: James der Derian
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0415772397
ISBN 13: 9780415772396
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 28 January, 2009
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 368
Description: Offers a long history of the military strategies, philosophical questions, ethical issues, and political controversies that lead up to the global war on terrorism and the Iraq War.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 26 black & white halftones
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
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