![]() ![]() Not exactly unlike the task in World War Z, which is to reconstitute civilization while managing the zombie problem. A mixed civilian-military team had to anticipate the storm's severity, figure out logistics routes to get into storm-damaged areas, and plan how to assist flooded and powerless residents before turning the reins of control back over to local governments. The drill Brooks joined didn't involve any brain-eating undead, just a mock landfall of a hurricane at Gulfport, Miss., and Norfolk, Va. And one of the themes of World War Z is that intellectual complacency and self-satisfaction from senior Army leadership is a national-security threat. Some of the Army's cherished high-tech solutions are battlefield liabilities: the since-killed Land Warrior sensor system that networked soldiers together led to battlefield panic when soldiers at Yonkers saw just how many zombies they faced. ![]() ![]() The Army learns at the epic Battle of Yonkers that its Cold War-era land war doctrines - luring the undead into choke points and raking them with artillery - aren't going to work. No wonder: World War Z is the rare zombie novel that really gets into the tactics of confronting zombies. I've found his books on practically every forward operating base I've been on in Iraq and Afghanistan. ![]()
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