Militainment and War: How Long Must We Sing This Song?

his chapter will focus on critically analyzing issues concerning the interconnections between the current milieu of militarization and peace education. The notions of perpetual war will be discussed within the framework of the current socio-political context of global militarization. This is followed by critical media analysis which demonstrates the ways in which war films contribute to the identity formation of young men and women particularly with regard to the military and military dispositions. An autobiographical section gives a concrete example of this identity formation through cultural representations of the past. The critical media analysis of the film Act of Valor provides a contemporary and specific example of how war films operate. Finally, the notion of Deleuzian lines of flight established by a critical media literacy concerning war films and their effect on youth identity are explicated as a pathway toward peace.