Ep. 30 – Zombies and Global Security, with Max Brooks

Modern War Institute

John Amble

Government, News

4.7 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Capt. Jake Miraldi talks to Max Brooks, bestselling author of "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide" about how he uses zombies in his books as a stand-in for the kinds of major crises that transcend borders and require coordinated responses, often with a military component. The conversation also touches on society's civil-military gap, the importance of creative thinking for military leaders, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome back to the Modern War Institute podcast.
0:09.9	The episode you're about to hear is actually one that originally ran over a year ago, not long after we launched the MWI podcast series.
0:18.3	It's one of our favorite episodes.
0:20.2	It's with best-selling author and
0:22.0	MWI non-resident fellow Max Brooks. Max is most well known for his books, which include World
0:29.5	War Z and the zombie survival guide. But he's also got a keen ability to use unique topics,
0:36.6	like zombies, to frame and talk
0:40.3	about real world security challenges.
0:43.3	You'll hear him do that in this episode.
0:46.3	Before we get to that, a couple quick notes.
0:49.3	First, we recently launched a second podcast series called The Spear.
0:55.1	Each episode features a one-on-one interview with a combat veteran about a particular event,
1:00.6	and we use those discussions to explore what the combat experience is really like.
1:06.2	We're a few episodes in, and we've got another great one that will be released next week.
1:11.8	The podcast is available on iTunes, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast, so we'd love it if you'd find
1:16.6	it and subscribe. Also, as always, what you hear in this podcast are the views of the participants
1:22.6	and don't represent the position of any agency of the U.S. government. All right, here's Captain Jake Moraldi talking to Max Brooks.
1:31.1	Enjoy the podcast.
1:37.6	This week on the podcast, we're going to talk about something a little bit different than we normally talk about.
1:42.7	This week we're talking about zombies.
1:48.2	Well, kind of.
1:50.1	We'll be talking about zombies as a metaphor.
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