To Boldly Go

Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond

Jonathan Klug, Steven Leonard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2021
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-63624-062-6 (ISBN)

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A multi-author exploration of leadership and strategy through the lens of classic science fiction.

"The literature of ideas." When author Pamela Sargent used those words to describe science fiction in 1975, the genre had exploded into the literary mainstream. As a literature of ideas, science fiction has proven to be a powerful metaphor for the world around us, offering a rich tapestry of imagination through which to explore how we lead, how we think, and how we interact. To Boldly Go assembles more than thirty writers from around the world - experts in leadership and strategy, senior policy advisors and analysts, professional educators and innovators, experienced storytellers, and ground-level military leaders - to help us better understand ourselves through the lens of science fiction.

Each chapter of To Boldly Go draws out the lessons that we can learn from science fiction, drawing on classic examples of the genre in ways that are equally relatable and entertaining. A chapter on the burdens of leadership by Ghost Fleet author August Cole launches readers into cosmos with Captain Avatar aboard the space battleship Yamato. In another chapter, the climactic Battle of the Mutara Nebula from The Wrath of Khan weighs the advantages of experience over intelligence in the pursuit of strategy. What does inter-species conflict in science fiction tell us about our perspectives on social Darwinism? Whether using Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to explore the nuances of maritime strategy or The Expanse to better understand the threat poses by depleted natural resources, To Boldly Go provides thoughtful essays on relevant subjects that will appeal to business leaders, military professionals, and fans of science fiction alike.

Jonathan Klug is a professor at the U.S. Army War College, military strategist, and historian. A PhD candidate in Military and Naval History at the University of New Brunswick, he is an award-winning military history instructor and has taught at both the Air Force and Naval Academies. He is co-editor of To Boldly Go (with Steven Leonard, Casemate, 2021). Steve Leonard is an award-winning faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Business, where he serves as Senior Assistant Dean and Professor of the Practice. A former senior military strategist and the creative force behind the defense microblog, Doctrine Man!!, he is a career writer and speaker with a passion for developing and mentoring the next generation of thought leaders. He is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; the co-founder of the national security blog, Divergent Options; co-founder of the Military Writers Guild; and a member of the editorial review board of the Arthur D. Simons Center’s Interagency Journal. He is the author, co-author, or editor of several books, including To Boldly Go (Casemate, 2021), Why We Write (2019), Winning Westeros (2019), and Strategy Strikes Back (2018).

Foreword - Major General Mick Ryan

Introduction

PART I: THE CAPTAIN’S HAND

1 Space Battleship Yamato and the Burden of Command - August Cole

2 Of X-Wings and Y-Wings - Kera Rolsen

3 Adama’s Unequal Dialogue - Mick Cook

4 Earth Must Come First! - Jo Brick

5 You’re Not Ender Wiggins, and That’s Okay - Will Meddings

6 Princess Leia and the Strategic Art of Métis - Heather S. Gregg

7 Want to Know More? - Jess Ward

PART II: THE FINAL FRONTIER

8 Yours is the Superior - Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard

9 The Empire’s New Hope - James Groves

10 Graff’s Game - Thomas Bruscino

11 From Tactics to Galactic Grand Strategy - Major General Mick Ryan

12 Where No Port Has Gone Before - Timothy Choi

13 Sun Tzu, Ender, and the Old Man - Kathleen J. McInnis

PART III: THE PRIME DIRECTIVE

14 All That You Touch You Change - Jacqueline E. Whitt

15 Romulans and Remans - Max Brooks

16 Are We Such Apostles of Mercy? - Janeen Webb

17 Beware the Beast Man-Steven Leonard

18 Flag Follows Trade - Theresa Hitchens

19 The Vice Admiral and the Flyboy-Kelsey Cipolla

20 I Exist Only to Serve - Julie M. Still and Kelly A. Lelito

PART IV: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

21 One Voice in the Night - Clara Engle

22 There’s No Screaming in Space - Jon Niccum

23 The Final Frontier - Erica Iverson

24 Blood Lessons - M. L. Cavanaugh

25 You Rebel Scum! - Jonathan Klug

26 Calm Men Who Deal Death Wholesale - Rebecca Jensen

PART V: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES

27 We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here - Margarita Konaev

28 Things We Learned from Captain Trips - Craig and Steve Whiteside

29 Musings on the Murderbot - Elsa B. Kania

30 Man > Machine - Liam Collins

31 You Can’t Hide From the Things You’ve Done - Francis J. H. Park

PART VI: THE DARK SIDE

32 The Mark of Locutus - David Calder

33 From Darth Vader to Dark Helmet - Dan Ward

34 To Live and Die at My Command - Jonathan Klug

35 The Mirror Crack’d - Steven Leonard

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-63624-062-3 / 1636240623
ISBN-13	978-1-63624-062-6 / 9781636240626
Zustand	Neuware