Max Brooks, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and acclaimed author of “World War Z,” discusses the nation’s civil-military divide, the importance of soft power and human rights for US global influence, military education, his new book, “Minecraft: The Island,” and more in a wide-ranging, recent interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s Washington office.