Modern Warfare

Video games have unforeseen consequences. If video games came up in a moral debate, many would say that they have no value. On the contrary, many would say that they destroy lives of families and couples. The value that most would welcome to the other side of this debate is games have the ability to release stress and provide great entertainment. Until the O.N.R. (U.S. Office of Naval Research) had announced their finding on the correlation between gamers and soldiers, there might not be much more to add to the pro-gamer’s side of the debate. The O.N.R. has found that gamers are more capable for combat than non-gamers. They found soldiers that are gamers score 10 to 20 percent higher on test of their perceptual and cognitive abilities than soldiers who don’t play games. This correlation between gamers and soldiers may provide great insight to how the military might recruit and train soldiers. Until more research is gathered, we can only speculate about the future of modern warfare.

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