EP19 Asymmetrical Perspectives

it's hardcore history so the origin story for the conversation you're about to hear is that i was on a panel with the upcoming guest and as we were departing the panel he leans in and whispers in my ear we should talk about asymmetrical warfare sometime on your show and as many of you know i'm a sucker for romantic talk like that so we set it up and we had the conversation i should point out back on december 14th 2021 so i've held this for a little while which might mean if if somewhere in the timeline there's anything that seems a little strange to you that might be why although i didn't notice anything but i tend to miss stuff especially when i'm as deep into the hardcore history with weeds as i am right now there's a lot of mental issues for the host has at the moment i don't even know how to describe the guest that's upcoming because he's done so many things in so many different areas actor author writer uh senior fellow at the modern war institute at west point and writes about zombies he is the author of um world war z he was a comedy writer at saturday night live his father and mother are both probably known to use dads mel brooks as mothers and bancroft it's a fantastically interesting individual i enjoyed my conversation with him immensely so for the next hour and a half i hope you enjoy the conversation as much as i did that we had with max brooks [Music] max brooks thank you so much for coming on the program um why don't we start with your definition since you brought it up thought we should talk a little bit about asymmetrical warfare tell me what your definition of asymmetrical warfare is and why you think people should know about it yes well my version of it is uh as as klaus awaits once called war politics by other means i call asymmetry war by other means uh that doesn't that doesn't mean that it doesn't include violence but it's not exclusive state violence and what i mean is uh the the traditional definition of war is that you have army a on one side and army b on the other side and they go at it on a chosen battlefield and whoever ...