Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict

The most successful film franchise of all time, *Star Wars* thrillingly depicts an epic multigenerational conflict fought a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But the *Star Wars* saga has as much to say about successful strategies and real-life warfare waged in our own time and place. *Strategy Strikes Back* brings together more than thirty of today's top military and strategic experts, including generals, policy advisors, seasoned diplomats, counterinsurgency strategists, science fiction writers, war journalists, and ground-level military officers, to explain the strategy and the art of war by way of the *Star Wars* films. Each chapter of *Strategy Strikes Back* provides a relatable, outside-the-box way to simplify and clarify the complexities of modern military conflict. *Strategy Strikes Back* gives *Star Wars* fans and aspiring military minds alike an inspiring and entertaining means of understanding many facets of modern warfare in a book as captivating as *Star Wars* itself.