Plus, being immersed in that environment, you get to observe the politicsof game development and publishing going on around you, and get a clearer picture of how the industry operates from the inside.
They took on responsibilities once reserved only for those with considerably more seniority - responsibilities that extended beyond the base or the battlefield to the politicsof Afghanistan, to the politicsof Iraq, to the economies of those countries, and to the development tasks that ultimately will lay the groundwork for us to leave behind stable countries that will not threaten us.