guardian.co.uk: "These days we're constantly being told how authentic military combat games are, the Ghost Recon and Battlefield series' focusing heavily on real-world weapons and situations. But how realistic are these games? Do they portray anything of the conflicts we're seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan?

To find out I spoke to Dr Malcom Davis, a lecturer in Defence Studies with the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. Davis is based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, located in Watchfield, Wiltshire - the JSCSC is the UK's mid-level staff college for military officers going on to senior command assignments. As well as running advanced and intermediate level courses in Defence and Strategic/Security Studies, he has specific research interests hugely relevant to modern combat game design." Read on