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Brian Haig’s The Capitol Game: “A week without sweat or explosions is more than you can imagine.”

by Elise Cooper
Posted on August 28 2010 6:00 pm

Elise Cooper is a freelance author focusing on the conservative point of view on issues involving national and homeland security. Her articles have been published by various conservative blogs, magazines and Republican newsletters.

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NRB: You talk about the camaraderie of the soldiers after they returned home. Does the relationship between the troops become family-like?

Haig: Yes. It is very much like a family. Guys who have survived a year or a couple of years in combat zones form bonds that tend to last a life time. I watched my own father (the late General Alexander Haig), for the rest of his life attend annual events with those he fought beside in Korea and Vietnam.

NRB: What is the theme of the book?

Haig: What the book is really about is contractors, profiteering, and big corporations in America trying to make money off of war. Traditionally as a country we have a very dim view of doing such things. Profiteering is a really despicable word Even though we are a capitalist country, when it comes to war everybody is supposed to work towards the common good. What that means is for corporations to make minimal profits for the good of the soldiers. However, in this modern era we moved away from thinking about it that way. The Capitol Group in the book is about one of those companies.

NRB: Why do you think it changed?

Haig: It changed sometime after WWII because of all the limited wars we have been fighting. We have not had to mobilize as a nation. If you limit your objectives then why is anyone fighting in the first place? Certainly not for our survival. General McArthur thought it objectionable to fight a limited war in Korea. He knew that for the soldiers on the battlefield it was not limited for them. This explains his warning, “there is no substitute for victory.”

NRB: Did you intentionally wind everything up and connect all the pieces in the last three chapters?

Haig: Yes. By the end, everyone’s motives become clear and I think it’s a really satisfying ending.

NRB: What is your next project?

Haig: I have a contract to write two books with Vince Flynn. It is centered in New York City around the counter-terrorism unit. It will be a lot of fun because, not only is Vince Flynn one of today’s best thriller writers, he also happens to be a great guy.