What Star Wars Teaches Us About Real Wars
On May 24, 2018, I talked about writing and Star Wars with Jonathan Small on his podcast, Write About Now–you can find it here.
After Action Review: Operation UNDERBELLY
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. There are lessons from wars of the past. There are lessons from wars of the present. And there are lessons from wars of the future. MWI Fellow August Cole proves this third point in his exceptional work of short fiction,…
Words for War: Common Mistakes in Writing About Human Conflict
Image courtesy of Vanity Fair; photo illustration by Stephen Doyle. Words and war are connected deeply and in ways that have shaped human history. Land armies secured the Rosetta Stone, which enabled linguistic understanding of far off ancient civilizations. Paper-making technology came to the Middle East and Europe from a Chinese prisoner of war taken at the Battle of Talas in 751A.D. And,…