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| Drones - centerpiece of militainment |
Video gaming and gamers offer the military a set of technology and skills that are being used as drones play a larger role in military surveillance and direct combat. Using drones presents a different form of killing as the drone operator/ player/combatant is literally 10,000 miles from where the action is taking place - it is a total physical and emotional disconnect.
Like playing a video game the military drone operator is not a physically engaged warrior but is waging war-by-distance and it is where the military wants to be in the 21st Century.
The U.S. military has bought the intellectual property rights to hundreds of video games and aggressively recruits top video gamers for service. Currently, 87 countries have and use drones on a daily basis, principally for surveillance, as warfare evolves. With militainment there are no fears, anger, emotions, it's detached doing.
Movie-making and all of the technology that goes into special effects, etc. and video games where excellent realism has now morphed into virtual reality is where militainment moves forward and turns that make-believe into 'real' reality - and there is no going back.
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