A decorated Marine veteran and a video game maker revisit one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. Guests: Elliot Ackerman , author and contributing writer at The Atlantic ; Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura ; And Defense One science and tech editor Patrick Tucker. Sources and additional reading: " Goodbye, My Brother ," by Elliot Ackerman, writing for Esquire on March 23, 2017; The video game " Six Days in Fallujah "; " Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks ," a satirical video produced in January 2011 by The Onion; " Virtual reality exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a meta-analysis ," published August 2019 in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology ; " Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder ," published April 2020 in the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience ; And " Putting the Gaming Experience at the Center of the Therapy—The Video Game Therapy® Approach ," published June 2023 in Healthcare .
