October 20, 2011 The Guardian
“Since 9/11, the United States has spent an estimated $3.2 to $4tn, reports the Watson Institute, fighting these multiple wars and low- intensity conflicts throughout the Middle East and North Africa.”
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Matthew Thomas Payne is the author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2016). He is co-author of Ultima and Worldbuilding in the Computer Role-Playing Game (Amherst College Press, 2024), and is a co-editor of the...