Slagle, Matt, "Video games prepare troops" (AP new story)

Slagle, Matt. "Video games prepare troops" (vt and alternative version "Military recruits game makers" etc.—AP story). October 2003. Dayton Daily News 5 Oct. 2003: AA1. Oakland Tribuine 3 Oct. 2003: [1]. Key words: the game titles: "Full Spectrum Warrior" and "Full Spectrum Command."

"Increasingly, the Pentagon is joining forces with the video games industry to train and recruit soldiers. The Army considers such simulators vital for recruits who've been weaned on shoot'em up games." The CIA "is developing a role-playing computer simulation to train analysts"; the producing company is the Institute for Creative Technologies [www.ict.usc.edu], who are working on a game that will have "agency analysts assume the role of terror cell leaders, cell members and operatives"—to learn the perspective of terrorists.