Blurring the lines between war and entertainment

"In a new twist on President Eisenhower's concept of a 'military-industrial complex,'" Nick Turse writes in the LA Times, "a 'military-entertainment complex' has sprung up to feed both the military's desire for high-tech training techniques and the entertainment industry's desire to bring out ever-more-realistic computer and video combat games. Through video games, the military and its partners in academia and the entertainment industry are creating an arm of media culture geared toward preparing young Americans for armed conflict."