Date: April 30th 2008

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A self-described slob and data-entry drone from Fresno, CA, Brecher is P.J. O'Rourke on Red Bull, writing with passion and profanity on the nature of warfare and the ongoing wars--those on the front page and otherwise--that are being fought every day around the world.

[Review copies now available, please email publicity@softskull.com]

Gary Brecher is a war nerd and he's not alone. People like him, he says, normal Americans, fat and alone and stuck in a stupid white-collar slave jobs, get off on reading about war because they hate their lives.

In The War Nerd (Soft Skull Press / Counterpoint; Trade Paper Original; June 2008; $15.95; 978-0-9796636-8-0) Brecher provides the utterly uncensored, ribald, gonzo, judgmental, opinionated, entertaining, enlightening and enraging thoughts of the Dean of war nerds. Part war commentator, part humorist, Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes. Although he reserves his most acidic diatribes for neo-cons, few are spared: naked Liberian generals, Tom Clancy UN peacekeepers, Dick Cheney, the Israeli Defense Forces (the current lazy ones, not the rugged 1950's and 1960's incarnation...). A provocative freethinker, he also expresses admiration in the mostly unlikely situations and for not the most pacifistic of reasons-the Tamil Tigers and their air force, the Lebanese Hezbollah (taking strategic advantage of their primary asset which is their disinterest to minimizing casualties), the Danes (of 1000 years ago), and so on across the globe and the centuries.

The War Nerd deploys the full arsenal of crude, scatological, un-PC humor, in such essays as "Monster Trucks in Ramallah," "Aceh vs. the Borg" and "Kargil: War as Ice Capades" to get across a crucial message-there is massive incompetence, laziness, and complacency in the precincts of military power. While he might spend too much time surfing the internet, and watching CNN and al-Jazeera, we need guys like the War Nerd to provide a truly un-varnished view of the world's wars.

About the Author:

Gary Brecher is a data-entry clerk in Fresno, CA. His regular online column in the Moscow-based alternative newspaper The eXile is attracts a large, ideologically diverse audience.


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