Description: Strategy Strikes Back addresses real-life implications of the Star Wars saga, using the movie franchise to describe strategies from the political fallout of targeting civilians to toxic top-down leadership and to the long-term consequences of abandoning postwar allies.
Brief description: Max Brooks is a writer, public speaker, and senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Harlem Hellfighters, among other works. Brooks, and the other coeditors of this book, edited Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict (Potomac Books, 2018).
Review Quotes: "Illuminating."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs