Solving The Military Recruitment Crisis (Or Why I Signed Up To The Army For A Video Essay)

It's been over a year since I last uploaded; hope you're good and nothing major happened whilst I was gone. The good news is I'm not dead, the bad news is we all might be soon.

CW: Discussions of racial and sexual abuse from 33.27 - 34.40

00:00 This Video is About World War Three
04:24 Call Of Duty: Or How We Learned To Sell Death
25:50 Modern Warfare: Or How The Military (Never) Got Woke
40:35 Modern Warfare (Remastered): Or How War Became A Video Game
1:07:07 The One Where I Sign Up To The British Army

ORGANISATIONS TO SUPPORT/JOIN:
Palestine Action - https://palestineaction.org/
Medical Aid for Palestinians - https://www.map.org.uk/
Palestine Solidarity Campaign - https://palestinecampaign.org/
Campaign Against the Arms Trade - https://caat.org.uk/
Action on Armed Violence - https://aoav.org.uk/
Rethinking Security - https://rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/
Scientists for Global Responsibility - https://www.sgr.org.uk/
Amnesty International - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/
British Red Cross - https://www.redcross.org.uk/
Doctors Without Borders - https://www.msf.org/
ForcesWatch - https://www.forceswatch.net/
Veterans For Peace - https://www.veteransforpeace.org/

SOURCES:

Visual Media/Documentaries etc.
Soldier - BBC (2024)
BBC Newsbeat - Civilians to Soldiers (2014)

Literature
Juliette Croce, Brotherhood in Tension: The Militarized Appropriation of Homosocialism and Homoeroticism, FLUX Internatational Relations Review, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)

Corey Mead, War Play: Video Games and The Future of Armed Conflict, 2013

Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman, Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold

Harriet Gray, Nicola Lester & Emma Norton, Servicewomen’s Experiences of the Aftermath of Sexual Assault in the British Military - Blame, Shame and Betrayal, The RUSI Journal Volume 168, 2023 - Issue 5

Greene, Balissa (2016) The experience of foreign and commonwealth soldiers in the British Army: an exploration and methodological commentary. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.