An Empire of Nothing at All? The US Military Takes Us Through the Gates of Hell
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By Tom Engelhardt
A US soldier maneuvers through a smoke screen during live fire exercises in Djibouti, December 27, 2017. (Photo: Senior Airman Erin Piazza / US Air Force).
Although the peace movement is not a loud voice at this time in the US, it should be. The United States empire is asserting its military might around the globe, and that might just be its downfall. The following essay is the introduction to Tom Engelhardt's A Nation Unmade by War.
As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America's war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool $5.6 trillion (including the future costs of c...