DEFAERO Strategy Series w/ Max Brooks [Dec 21, ’21]

Defense & Aerospace Report

Max Brooks, author “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” and his latest book “Minecraft: The Island” who is also affiliated with the Institute for Modern War at the US Military Academy where he also teaches, discusses strategy, lessons from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as covid, deterring China and Russia, accelerating capabilities development and culture change, the threat from domestic extremism, and the importance of collaboration between the arts and military members with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This conversation is part of a series of discussions with leading thinkers and strategists and dedicated to the memory of Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, and sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.