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The Pentagon in order to make arguments about like kind of super suits for like of a better term right in order to make arguments about why that might be necessary for future wars

they began using video game concept art. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front

lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to War College. I am your host Matthew Galt. War, war never changes.

Except that's not exactly true, is it? I argue that war has changed demonstrably in the past two decades. It's gotten longer, somehow less deadly for certain people involved and far weirder.

Also, despite America being engaged in multiple conflicts on multiple continents, Americans

are paying less attention to foreign military engagements than ever before.

Worse, the country feels fractured in a way that can be hard to understand.

There's more information than ever before and that information seems to be making us fight each other.

It could be hard to even settle on a consensus reality. We live in confusing, stressful, and bizarre times. So how did we get here? I don't know. If I did, I'd be selling a book and not here with you podcasting.

But what I can do is discuss a piece of art, a prescient piece of art

that I think helps explain how we got here.

And here to discuss that is Cameron Kunsleman.

Kunsleman is a media critic who is published in many illustrious publications.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Okay, so I'm talking about Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty. This is it. This is what we're doing. We're doing the Metal Gear Solid episode.

Metal Gear. Yes. So, to people who don't know what Metal Gear Solid is, sir, can you give us give us the like give us a briefing?

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