Strategy strikes back How Star Wars explains modern military conflict
Book - 2018
"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"--
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[Lincoln, NE] :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Place of publication from website.
- Physical Description
- xx, 246 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781640120334
- The case for planet-building on Endor / Max rooks
- The Jedi and the senate / Jim Golby
- Distant warriors : are clones and troops too separate from the societies they serve? / Crispin J. Burke
- The ethics of destroying Alderaan/ Mick Cook
- On civil-military relationships in Star Wars / Daniel D. Maurer
- How general grevious and vulture droids foreshadow conflict's fast future / Raq Winchester and Fran Wilde
- From princess to general : the on-and off-screen rise of the woman warrior / Erica Iverson
- Tarkin doctrine : the Empire's theory of victory / Kelsey D. Atherton
- How not to build an army : the Empire's flawed military force / Mick Ryan
- The Jedi and the profession of arms / Steven Leonard
- The right fleet : starships for strategic purpose / BJ Armstrong
- Why we need space marines / B.A. Friedman
- Jedi mind tricks : from the reel to the real / Jean Marie Ward
- Lightsabers and death stars : military technology lessons from Star Wars / Dan Ward
- Hybrid Star Wars : the battle of Endor / James Stavridis and Colin Steele
- Han, Greedo, and a strategy of prevention / Chuck Bies
- The logic of strategy in space / Steve Metz
- Darth Vader and mission command / Jonathan Bratten
- The battle of Hoth : a critical analysis / Andrew Liptak
- Why military forces adapt, even in a galaxy far, far away / Chuck Bies
- Dispatches from Hoth : when the blood runs cold / August Cole
- Darth Vader's failed counterinsurgency strategy / Liam Collins
- Why the Jedi won fights, not wars / John Spencer
- Why the Galactic Republic fell : an imperial network perspective / Van Jackson
- Why the Empire failed / Theresa Hitchens
- Star Wars, cyclical history, and implications for strategy / Kathleen J. Mcinnis
- Suffer, the weak must : a history of the Galactic civil war / Craig Whiteside
- Strategist, Yoda was not / ML Cavanaugh
- Epilogue : the lessons of Star Wars / ML Cavanaugh.