1 Introduction: Paramilitarization and the globalization of paramilitary culture.- Part 1 Projecting the post-heoric warrior in new popular cultural forms.- 2 Techniques of empathy and embodiment in the paramilitary film: Learning from The Hurt Locker.- 3 Press X to pay respects: Evolving depictions of war in Call of Duty and Battlefield.- 4 Re-narrating the paramilitary in the Colombian conflict: Examining the Medellin memory museum.- Part 2 Projecting the paramilitary warrior in practices of social memory.- 5 The social memory of the North Vietnamese soldier in Vietnam and United States popular culture.- 6 From nationalization to Islamization of the Ottoman Soldier at the Canakkale/Gallipoli WWI Battlefields.- 7 The Danish soldier reimagined: Civil religion and religion of the self in the post-9/11 era.- Part 3 Paramilitary, organisations and the advancement of paramilitary culture.- 8 Profession and identity: Warriors in the 21st Century.- 9 The poetics of paramilitarization: Hizbollah and the Shade of Resistance in Southern Lebanon.- 10 Firefights and the performance of occupational masculinity during downtime.