From the end of World War II until the mid-1990s, military intervention was largely rejected on moral, political and legal grounds. In the wake of civil and ethnic wars, ethical thinking about armed intervention has begun to change. This work explores the ethical and practical consequences of these changes.

The Pentagon works with Hollywood to develop new robot weapons systems, and encourages Hollywood to glorify and sanitise military violence. This title draws this strange, frightening world-within-the-world into the light.