Back in 2003, at the dawn of the so-called war on terror, Pandemic Studios–the company behind Mercenaries 2–was subcontracted as part of a “$45 million endeavor formed by the army five years earlier to connect academics with local entertainment and video game industries.”
A decade later, Call of Duty designer Dave Anthony was enlisted by a former Pentagon official named Stephen Grundman to advise The Art of Future WarProject–an initiative of NATO’s unofficial think tank in Washington, the Atlantic Council.
The project also sought advice from Oliver North, the right-wing military fanatic who was convicted of a felony for his role in destabilizing Central America during the 1980’s.
In fact, North was credited as a military consultant for the 2012 Call of Duty: Black Ops, and made a cameo appearance in the game
Chillingly, one future war scenario envisioned by Anthony was “an assault on Las Vegas similar to the 2008 [terrorist] attacks on Mumbai.”
Makers of a Call of Duty sequel openly boasted of working with a Pentagon advisor.
Did the attack on Venezuela’s electricity grid and hydroelectric dam depicted in Call of Duty forecast another future assault? Venezuela’s government and millions of the country’s citizens certainly think so.
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