British Army Will Use Call of Duty To Train Soldiers (telegraph.co.uk)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/21/207242/british-army-will-use-call-of-duty-to-train-soldiers
- Source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/21/army-will-use-call-of-duty-to-train-soldiers/
> General Sir Tom Copinger-Symes, the deputy commander of Cyber and Specialist Operations Command, said the war in Ukraine, where remote-operated drones have become crucial on the battlefield, proved the worth of having soldiers skilled in video gaming.
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> The Ministry of Defence on Friday announced the launch of the International Defence Esports Games (IDEG), a video gaming tournament that will pit the best of Britain's "future cyber warriors" against military teams from 40 other countries.
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/21/army-will-use-call-of-duty-to-train-soldiers/
Should use Grand Theft Auto instead (Score:2)
Probably a better example of modern warefare.
This is a massive transfer of public resources... (Score:1)
This is a massive transfer of public resources to a private company, Microsoft. A company that most people believe to be a predatory, unproductive and deceptive monopoly. It's also a company with a weird history of working with Jeffrey Epstein. This is graft and it's absolutely indefensible.
In the US, Microsoft has already been fined over $1.5 BILLION for 23 violations that include price-fixing, polluting, defrauding investors and bribing foreign officials. Not to mention the number of massive, high-profil
Of course (Score:1)
Back in like 1996 when I was in the army in Fort Irwin, CA, I was the 'Regimental Automation Officer' as an E4. This game me certain privileges. One of those was the ability to put coax capable outside the barracks, which was run to a dozen rooms to create a network. See, in the barracks in the army, you are put in a room with 1 or more of your squad mates, and you are all, whoever is single, are basically in 1 long hallway. So, we'd all open our doors and play duke nukem 3d together. We were all squad
Let me know (Score:3)
When drone controllers come with a teabag button or a speaker to insult your opponents mother.