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Hello out there, War College listeners, it is I your humble host, Matthew Galt.

I am up here at the top of the show.

We want to let you know that this week is a rerun.

We've got more stuff in store during the holiday break than I thought we would.

Actually quite a few people are coming on to talk about various things, including those Afghanistan papers that have been in the headlines.

Look for that next week. But this week, we are taking a little bit of a holiday break,

and since it is that Star Wars time of the year,

I thought it might be fun for us to look back at an old episode with our old host,

Jason Fields. We sat and talked to Max Brooks about the importance of Star Wars to the military.

This was an interesting episode for me personally, is it reinforced something that I kind of realized

recently that I was not a huge Star Wars fan until I started doing military reporting because Star Wars is incredibly

important to the military community.

It has become a de facto language that people from different cultures can use to explain

strategy and tactics and politics.

I know that's strange, but I also think it happens to be true.

If you ask any military journalist, I think they will tell you the same thing.

Without any further ado, here's that episode.

There's a very dangerous trend where we're going right now because like the

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