Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the

elites don't want you to know. You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. Show. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Tom Woods Show episode 2,557 with Chris Coyne.

We're going to be talking about his latest book,

co-authored book called How to Run Wars,

a Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite.

Chris is a senior fellow with the Independent Institute and co-editor of the Independent Review,

as well as Professor of Economics at George Mason University,

Associate Director of the FA Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and co-editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.

He's the author of numerous books, several of which we've discussed on this program, but today I love the idea

behind this book.

I'm looking forward to talking about how to run wars, so welcome back, Chris.

Oh, well, thank you, Tom.

It's always a pleasure to talk to you.

So how did you get the idea for this kind of tongue-in-cheek, clever, in a way, almost playful approach to this subject?

Yeah, we'll start by kind of giving it away up front which is the book is satirical and

that's not evident from page one of the book until you get perhaps towards the

end but that's the style and actually the inspiration was an economist that is very rarely talked about.

Bruce Witten Knight, who was Frank Knight's brother, the famous Frank Knight of Chicago.

He actually came from a family of economists. He's of course the most famous, but while he was at Chicago one of his brothers was a professor of economics at Berkeley.

The other Bruce Winton Knight was a professor of economics at Dartmouth.

And one of the books that Bruce Winton Knight published in 1936 was called,

Had a Run of War.

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