militainment

Examples

• Over at Foreign Policy, there's a neat retrospective of "militainment" -- entertainment or educational games with a military theme.

  Fast Company

• We couldn't wage our current wars without the all-volunteer military whose recruitment goals get fed every year by idealistic young people, who continue, despite all counter-evidence bursting off the front pages, to buy into the romance and excitement of war and armed do-goodism that the recruiters, with the help of a vast "militainment" industry, peddle like so many Joe Camels.

  Robert Koehler: Peddling War to Children

• In the latest edition of Foreign Policy, P.W. Singer examines the growing phenomenon of "militainment," a type of game content that draws praise from actual soldiers and officers as much as it gives them pause in its simplification of a deadly job, and bloodless lack of consequence.

  Kotaku

• The best-known game to deal with real-world battlefield scenarios is first-person shooter introduced by the U.S. Army in 2002 and the gold standard in "militainment."

  Slate Magazine

• At the same time, the nexus of video gaming, war, and militainment is growing even fuzzier with the rapid growth in unmanned systems that use video-gaming technology to conduct actual military operations (the United States now has some 7,000 unmanned systems in its aerial inventory and another 12,000 on the ground).

  Kotaku