Description: Winning Westeros explores how strategies in the television series Game of Thrones can be applied to real-world war and politics.
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: "Fans of Game of Thrones interested in the insights of modern strategic thinkers will enjoy this book. . . . Illuminating readers' blind spots is where fiction can truly help strategic thinkers get outside the box, and this is where Winning Westeros has the biggest impact."--Jessica Dawson, Res Militaris