Max Brooks's Blog, page 2
September 27, 2016
September 23, 2016
Food Blackmail Post
My new op-ed on the national security risk of selling Monsanto to a foreign power.
Food Insecurity: The Real Danger of Monsanto’s Sale to Bayer
August 30, 2016
CINEMA PURGATORIO
The new comics series is finally out. Alan Moore has just launched a new anthology of ongoing horror tales called ‘Cinema Purgatorio’. Each issues contains an 8 page segment from 5 different creative teams (Alan/Kevin O’Neill – Garth Ennis/Raulo Caceres – Kieron Gillen/Ignacio Calero – Christos Gage/Gabriel Andrade – Myself/Michael DiPascale) My story, “A More Perfect Union”, is a throwback to the giant insect movies of the 1950s. Only this time its the 1860s at a place called Gettysburg.
August 24, 2016
Speaking to the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command
Last month I took part in a ‘Mad Scientist’ conference hosted by the U.S. Army. The point was to try to prepare for the battlefield of the future. The opinions I expressed are mine and mine alone.
May 31, 2016
Germ Warfare
A new article for The New York Daily News: Imagine the Zika virus as a terror weapon
May 13, 2016
May 11, 2016
May 5, 2016
A Marine’s Message
Just returned from the Atlantic Council Global Strategy Forum and the best part was a note given to me by a young Marine officer named Angelica. Here’s a part of it.
“Being a Marine, surrounded by Marines, I forget that we are unusual. I forget that most Americans don’t know how the setting sun colors the endless sky in the middle of the Afghan desert or what the tiny sand particles feel like as they crash onto your face in the middle of a suffocating sandstorm. Most Americans wouldn’t recognize the sound that bullets make as they fly all around you or that feeling you get in your stomach and in your heart when you truly don’t know if you’ll get to complain about evening chow. I rarely allow myself to wonder if society thinks about us and our experiences.”
April 26, 2016
The Coming Robot War – And It’s Not With Robots
My first article as a non-resident fellow at the Modern War Institute:
November 10, 2015
Michigan Q&A Event this Thursday 11/12 for CommuniTeen Read
I’ll be in Portage, Michigan for a #CommuniTeenRead event this Thursday 11/12. The special presentation, Q&A and book signing will take place at Portage Central High School at 7pm and the entire event is free and open to the public.
