“A spartan native population disillusioned with invaders after a previous superpower's incursion: The parallels between Dune and Afghanistan were difficult to avoid.”
in a bookstore near Fort Riley, Kansas. The 23-year-old second lieutenant was intrigued by the book’s black cover, with an inset image of a desert landscape next to the title and the silhouettes of two robed figures walking across the sand. Despite its 800-plus pages, its small print made it a relatively compact cubic object. So he bought it and carried it with him to the Gulf, the only novel he packed in his rucksack along with his Army manuals and field guides.
Kort read the book during moments of downtime over the next weeks, as he led his platoon of 15 soldiers and four tanks through the Kuwaiti desert, and later when they took up residence in a powerless, abandoned building in Baghdad. It told the story of a young man who leaves a lush green world and arrives on the far more dangerous and arid planet of Arrakis, which holds beneath its sands a critical resource for all of the universe’s competing great powers.
“You look at it now and you think to yourself, well, of course the lessons are there, right? We’ve learned that a preponderance of technology doesn’t guarantee success. That the military element of national power alone can’t secure your objectives at times,” says Kort, who today serves as a strategic planning and policy officer for the Army. “There are these messy human characteristics in there, where people have honor and interest bound up into it.
A spartan native population disillusioned with invaders after a previous superpower's incursion: The parallels betweenDifferent sides even had their own paths to victory: The Fremen could win by preventing anyone else from winning. The Bene Gesserit player, representing’s genetically engineered order of psycho-manipulative illuminati, wrote down a prediction before the first turn, guessing which player would win and when. If that prediction came true, they would win instead.
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