ABSTRACT
The military plays a central role in domestic and foreign policymaking around the world, whether directly as an actor or indirectly as an idea or policy option. As part of this policymaking, official state identity by and large comes back to the issue of maintaining sovereignty and relies on the military as the form of protection of national security. Militarisation centres on accepting the values as common sense and accepting military needs as valuable and normal as the process through which societies around the world promote military values in civilian life. The chapter examines how digital popular culture artefacts can contribute to the normalisation of military values in civilian life It is this challenge by bringing together the common sense acceptance of the good, natural and necessary role of the military in state identity and the implications this acceptance has for other aspects of society, for example in policymaking.
