{"id":900048,"date":"2026-04-18T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/how-america-gamified-its-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:13:37","slug":"how-america-gamified-its-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/how-america-gamified-its-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"How America gamified its war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.Why it matters: The Trump administration didn&#8217;t invent the gamification of war,\u00a0nor did it invent wartime propaganda \u2014 a tool of statecraft as old as armed conflict itself.But packaging live combat as social media content \u2014 scoring real kills in real time&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/14\/the-gamification-of-war\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Zachary Basu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.Why it matters: The Trump administration didn&#8217;t invent the gamification of war,\u00a0nor did it invent wartime propaganda \u2014 a tool of statecraft as old as armed conflict itself.But packaging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,81714,192],"tags":[5157,140448],"class_list":{"0":"post-900048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-america","8":"category-gamified","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-gamified"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}