Wolverines: Reflections on Red Dawn

Wolverines: Reflections on Red Dawn contains 23 essays on various subjects relating to the 1984 cult-classic film Red Dawn. The author, Ryan Lewellin, is an avid fan of the film and analyzes some of the themes, historical context, characters and events within the film along with some speculation on some of the story's loose ends. Lewellin taps into his military experience in Iraq as well as his knowledge of history, geopolitics and survivalism to provide some unique insights on a film that he believes is often misunderstood and misinterpreted.


The essays include:
- Introduction
- Making Sense Out of the Backstory
- Putting Red Dawn Into Historical Context
- The Great Dystopia
- The Strenuous Life
- Colonel Bella: Partisan to Policeman
- What Red Dawn Really Says About War
- Red Dawn on Two Domestic Issues
- Nature's Indifference
- Lessons in Self-Sufficiency from The Masons
- Did All That Hate Really Burn Robert Up?
- Morris Market Supply Run: A Survivalist's Dream
- Complacency Kills
- Erica and Toni: The Guerrillas Next Door
- Danny: Somewhere Between "Weiner" and "Warrior"
- Aardvark: American Che Guevara
- The Wolverine as a Mascot
- Reflections of Foreign Policy
- Red Dawn and Black Gold
- No Greater Love...
- On Guerrilla Warfare and Red Dawn: Different Time and Place, Similar Story
- The Execution
- The Chinese Holocaust
- Is Red Dawn Realistic or Not? Tackling the Question
- Bonus: The Iron Heel by Jack London
- Bonus: Tomorrow When The War Began