// Range of material (literature, photography, new media art, theory, film, creative nonfiction, public policy statements, war reporting, games)
// genre of war literature
// representation --> information visualization
// end of 20C as end of representation
// inauguration of era of simulation
// representation: real = sign
// representation works by reflection & analogy (1:1)
// simulation: sign no longer backs the real; obliteration of the original reference

1947: Dept of War becomes Dept of Defense
“taking action”
“target servicing”
“arbitrary deprivation of life”
“violence processing”
“damage limitation” (offensive attack)
“strikes”
“coercive diplomacy"
Grenada (1983): “pre-dawn vertical insertion”
"political maneuvering"

// trauma
// spectacle & spectatorship
// total war, smart war, just war, netwar
// models of defense
// models of the enemy
// rhetoric of intervention
// reformulation of human rights
// how is immersive experience or the real of war produced?

Barker - WWI
O'Brien - Vietnam
Sacco - Balkans
Adnan - Lebanon
Misc. - Afghanistan, Iraq, war on terror