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A behind-the-scenes look at how the military services uses video game technology to train troops, treat veterans, and lure new recruits. So how exactly does the U.S. military services train its troops for new varieties of armed turmoil, all within the constraints of reduced defense budgets? Ever more, the answer is cutting-edge video game technology. Corey Mead shows us workout sessions where soldiers undertake multiplayer "missions" that test fight skills, develop product cohesion, and train cultural consciousness. He immerses himself in 3-D fight simulations so convincing that they leave his heart race. And he shows the way the military, which has designed American education more than another force during the last century, fuels the adoption of games as learning tools - and recruitment come-ons. Mead also details the way the military uses games to prepare troops for their go back to the home front side also to treat PTSD. Military-funded researchers were closely involved with the computing improvements that resulted in the technology of the web. Now, as Mead shows, we live poised at the brink of an identical explosion in game technology. Conflict Play reveals that many of tomorrow's teaching tools, solutions, and entertainments are available in today's military.
