Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict

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Max Brooks is a writer public speaker nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point and senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Councils Art of Future Warfare project. He is the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and the coauthor (with John Amble ML Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates) of Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict (Potomac 2019). John Amble is the editorial director of the Modern War Institute. A former U.S. Army military intelligence officer he is a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. ML Cavanaugh is a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute and a U.S. Army strategist with global experience. Jaym Gates is a science fiction editor and author with more than a dozen anthologies to her credit. Stanley McChrystal is a U.S. Army general (ret.) who led the Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq during the Persian Gulf wars and was top commander of American forces in Afghanistan.