"What Black Ops 2 Gets Right About America’s ..." Topic

…Dirty Little Wars.

"In a series of articles at War on the Rocks and Slate, I heavily criticized Black Ops 2's vision of future warfare for – among other things – a stale consensus vision of future conflict that prizes fluff and fear-mongering over realistic threat scenarios. This vision alone, I argued, would constitute a poor contribution to defense policy. However, a recent lawsuit by former dictator Manuel Noriega against the use of his image and likeness in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 puts into focus one area where Activision and Dave Anthony are arguably ahead of the policy community – the messiness of black ops and proxy wars.

In July, Noriega sought compensation for Black Ops 2's depiction of the former dictator as a corrupt, double-dealing murderer. The case was just dismissed, and rightfully so given the precedent it might create for depiction of historical figures in entertainment media. In Black Ops 2, Noriega is [SPOILER WARNING] portrayed as a faithless despot who double crosses the player and commands a brutal security force whose lives he is willing to throw away at a moment's notice for his own convenience. In other words, Noriega is a figure familiar to any reader of international news since, say, the late 1950s…"
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