On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake- every civilization has faced them. Don't wait for them to come to you! This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. Flooded New Yorkers probably wouldn't have minded their government and military feeling like there were zombies bearing down on them."Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it. New York National Guard units were about to travel out of state for a disaster drill, instead of being on-hand to help their neighbors through Hurricane Sandy last fall. Whether or not the zombies are a good natural-disaster allegory or bureaucratic lesson plan, disaster-relief agencies don't always display a sense of urgency. 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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