Strategy strikes back
Subtitle: how Star Wars explains modern military conflict
By: edited by Max Brooks, John Amble, ML Cavanaugh, and Jaym Gates ; foreword by Stanley McChrystal
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781640120334
Subjects: Miscellanea; Military art and science; Case studies
Description: "This book addresses real-life applications of the "Star Wars" saga, from the political fallout of targeting civilians, to toxic top-down leadership, to the long-term consequences of abandoning postwar allies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The case for planet-building on Endor / Max rooks; title: The Jedi and the senate / Jim Golby; title: Distant warriors : are clones and troops too separate from the societies they serve? / Crispin J. Burke; title: The ethics of destroying Alderaan/ Mick Cook; title: On civil-military relationships in Star Wars / Daniel D. Maurer; title: How general grevious and vulture droids foreshadow conflict's fast future / Raq Winchester and Fran Wilde; title: From princess to general : the on-and off-screen rise of the woman warrior / Erica Iverson; title: Tarkin doctrine : the Empire's theory of victory / Kelsey D. Atherton; title: How not to build an army : the Empire's flawed military force / Mick Ryan; title: The Jedi and the profession of arms / Steven Leonard; title: The right fleet : starships for strategic purpose / BJ Armstrong; title: Why we need space marines / B.A. Friedman; title: Jedi mind tricks : from the reel to the real / Jean Marie Ward; title: Lightsabers and death stars : military technology lessons from Star Wars / Dan Ward; title: Hybrid Star Wars : the battle of Endor / James Stavridis and Colin Steele; title: Han, Greedo, and a strategy of prevention / Chuck Bies; title: The logic of strategy in space / Steve Metz; title: Darth Vader and mission command / Jonathan Bratten; title: The battle of Hoth : a critical analysis / Andrew Liptak; title: Why military forces adapt, even in a galaxy far, far away / Chuck Bies; title: Dispatches from Hoth : when the blood runs cold / August Cole; title: Darth Vader's failed counterinsurgency strategy / Liam Collins; title: Why the Jedi won fights, not wars / John Spencer; title: Why the Galactic Republic fell : an imperial network perspective / Van Jackson; title: Why the Empire failed / Theresa Hitchens; title: Star Wars, cyclical history, and implications for strategy / Kathleen J. Mcinnis; title: Suffer, the weak must : a history of the Galactic civil war / Craig Whiteside; title: Strategist, Yoda was not / ML Cavanaugh; title: Epilogue : the lessons of Star Wars / ML Cavanaugh.