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Light It Up - The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq (Hardcover)
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Light It Up - The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq (Hardcover)
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American military power in the War on Terror has increasingly
depended on the capacity to see the enemy. The act of
seeing-enhanced by electronic and digital technologies-has
separated shooter from target, eliminating risk of bodily harm to
the remote warrior, while YouTube videos eroticize pulling the
trigger and video games blur the line between simulated play and
fighting. Light It Up examines the visual culture of the early
twenty-first century military. Focusing on the Marine Corps, which
played a critical part in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, John
Pettegrew argues that U.S. military force in the Iraq War was
projected through an "optics of combat." Powerful military
technology developed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has placed
war in a new posthuman era. Pettegrew's interviews with marines, as
well as his analysis of first-person shooter videogames and combat
footage, lead to startling insights into the militarization of
popular digital culture. An essential study for readers interested
in modern warfare, policy makers, and historians of technology,
war, and visual and military culture.
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