An Interview with Author Kevin Trainor

Liberty Island Magazine ^ | February 20th, 2021 | Tamara Wilhite

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Kevin Trainor is an Army Security Agency veteran. This is what led to his memoir What Did You Do in the Cold War, Dad? He’s also an avid anime fan as well as a published sci-fi author.

Tamara Wilhite: You have such an interest in Anime that you’re the nominal head of the Anime & Recruiting bureau of the National Fantasy Fan Federation. What does that entail?

Kevin Trainor: Mostly I’m looking to get other anime fans interested in the N3F as a place to publish and read reviews of anime and manga, maybe publish some art. We’re reaching out to alternative social media, which has caused a bit of a kerfluffle.

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Tamara Wilhite: How do you think warfare is evolving beyond jokes of watching Twitter posts about bombs instead of watching CNN to learn where the rockets hit?

Kevin Trainor: Some days I think we’re headed towards the kind of awesome high-tech powered-armor future we saw in STARSHIP TROOPERS and the Four Horsemen series, and other days I think it’s going to be more like Gordy Dickson’s Dorsai stories, where complex high-tech gear is too difficult to maintain in the field and too easy to defeat with countermeasures, so everybody uses simple rifles. Jerry Pournelle’s CoDominium universe was like that as well – most of the colony planets and a good number of the independent planets just didn’t have the technology and manufacturing base to support the kind of weaponry that was common in the Cold War.

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An Interview with Author Kevin Trainor
https://libertyislandmag.com/2021/02/20/an-interview-with-author-kevin-trainor/