SIMULATIONS for PROPAGANDA and RECRUITMENT

David B. Nieborg - University of Amsterdam
"Mods, Nay! Tournaments, Yay! - The Appropriation of Contemporary Game Culture by the U.S. Military"

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue8/issue8_nieborg.html

A blog for the nonfiction book by Ed Halter
"From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games."

http://warandvideogames.typepad.com/blog/

America's Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army

http://www.americasarmy.com/

The Site Institute
"Studying the primary source propaganda, training manuals, and chatter of terrorists offers insight into terrorists and their activities that can not be obtained anywhere else. Failing to monitor terrorist propaganda is a failure in intelligence. To fulfill this need, the SITE Institute offers its Intelligence Subscription Service, which provides numerous daily translations of terrorist propaganda and multimedia from primary source terrorist websites."

http://siteinstitute.org/index.html

The Global Islamic Media Front is fairly involved in game and video production; see their Night of Bush Capturing, a FPS and reskinning of Quest for Saddam (2003).

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/15/video-game-night-of-bush-capturing/

http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/364755.html

War on Terror (Monte Cristo Games, 2006): modern combat real-time strategy (RTS) game set in 2008. You can play as one of three factions: Free World Forces (the UN, which has superior technology), the Order (second-hand Russian technology + guerrilla warfare = Al Qaeda), or the Chinese.

http://www.montecristogames.com/war-on-terror/en/index.html

Special Force (Hezbollah)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Force

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31323

Under Ash, a pro-Palestinian traditional first-person shooter made by a programming team in Syria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Ash

http://www.underash.net/

http://www.underash.net/emessage.htm