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Gary Brecher is the pseudonym of John Dolan, author of ''The War Nerd'', a twice-monthly column discussing current wars and other military conflicts, published originally in ''the eXile'', then NSFWCorp, and currently in PandoDaily(). A collection of his columns was published by Soft Skull Press in June 2008 (ISBN 0979663687). Brecher analyzes military strategy, tactics, and contexts of ongoing and past conflicts. Brecher has participated in radio interviews including a April 5, 2008, interview by Chuck Mertz on the Evanston/Chicago radio station WNUR 〔http://thisishell.com/archives_2008.html〕 and a May 25, 2008 interview by Steve Paulson on Wisconsin Public Radio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=To the best of our KNOWLEDGE )〕 == Identity == Other than the Steve Paulson interview, the only non-eXile source of information about Brecher is an email interview with him conducted by Steve Sailer and published by United Press International.〔(War Nerd's Interview with UPI ) - Sailer, Steve - United Press International, March 2003〕 The (image ) at the top of each ''War Nerd'' column supposedly representing Brecher is actually that of Roger Edvardsen of the Norwegian rhythm & blues band Ehem. Brecher claims to have been born in 1965 and to have attended community college after high school, dropping out before graduating.〔''(Conceived in Sin: The Online Audience and the Case of the eXile )'' - Dolan, John, April 2005〕 He claims to be employed as a data entry clerk in Fresno, California and deeply unsatisfied with his job.〔(Meet The War Nerd ) - Brecher, Gary - the eXile, 2002〕 Around that time he met Mark Ames, editor of the Moscow-based, English language newspaper the eXile, who offered Brecher a column. He wrote in his first eXile column that life in Fresno is a "death sentence" and that he spends 15 hours a day in front of a computer ("6 or 7 hours entering civilian numbers for the paycheck and the rest surfing the war news"). ''The War Nerd'' has since established a large following of its own, and Brecher's work is a regular subject in the eXile's letters to editor. No one outside of the eXile has proven any direct interaction with Gary Brecher. Brecher's reclusive nature and the lack of information about him have raised speculation (e.g. during his email interview with Sailer) that Brecher is a pseudonym for another eXile contributor. The use of invented characters is not unprecedented for ''the eXile''.〔''(Feis the Music! )'' - the eXile, 2003〕 A Buffalo Beast review 〔(Review of 'Pleasant Hell' ) - Buffalo Beast, 14 Dec 2005〕 of eXile editor John Dolan's novel "Pleasant Hell" states that ''"a faithful eXile reader () have to be as dense as young John Dolan not to realize you’re reading about the birth of 'Gary Brecher' - nome'' () ''de guerre of the famed 'War Nerd'."'' In the memoir, Dolan writes of obsessively studying military history and Jane's manuals while binging on junk food in the basement of a UC Berkeley library building in the mid-seventies. In one War Nerd column, Brecher writes, "''I used to spend every free hour, back before there was an internet, going over those big heavy reference books in the library: Jane's Tanks, Jane's Missile Systems, Jane's Combat Vehicles.''"〔''(Most Valuable Weapon: the RPG )'' - Brecher, Gary - the eXile, 2001〕 Also, one should note that in an 2001 eXile article, "Cleanse the World", John Dolan openly admits being a 'war-nerd': "''Oh, my poor naive war-nerd brothers, how could you ever have dreamed that Bush...''".〔''(Cleanse the World )'' - Dolan, John - eXile, 2001〕 On June 25, 2008, the following revelation is made on citypaper.〔http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/06/26/nonfiction-reviews〕 in the course of a review of the War Nerd book: ''But the War Nerd is, in fact, neither of those things. He is not even Gary Brecher! Brecher is the creation of John Dolan, a poet, novelist, lecturer in English at the University of Victoria, and The eXile co-editor. That's very exciting news for the War Nerd's regular readers: The columns you've been dissecting and debating for the last six years were written by an English professor who writes poetry!'' On November 2, 2010, in an interview with Scott Horton for Antiwar Radio,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gary Brecher « Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton )〕 John Dolan spoke for the first time about his Gary Brecher alter-ego which he described as being strongly based on his younger self. During the interview, he described Gary Brecher "''as a more honest version of who I really am''". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Brecher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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