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There's a very dangerous trend where we're going right now because like the Jedi the present military is too small for the growing challenges.

But you also see the rise in automation.

And so you see a lot more political will to automate the armed forces rather than ask the

American people to share some of the weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt'm Jason Field.

Hoth. Welcome to War College, I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Jason Field.

Hoth, Indoor, Crate.

Names that to a certain portion of the population mean childhood, fun, and war.

Yes, this week on War College,

we're going to talk Star Wars and military strategy.

It's the subject of a new book, Strategy Strikes Back,

how Star Wars explains modern military conflict.

Here to help us with the subject are two of the book's editors, Matt Kavanaugh and Max Brooks.

Kavanaugh is a non-resident fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point and a US Army strategist.

Brooks is also a non-resident fellow at the Modern War Institute,

as well as the best-selling author of World War Z and the Harlem Hell Fighters.

Max, Matt, thank you both so much for joining us.

Good to be here. I'm super excited to be here.

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