Matt Kennard’s new book is the culmination of more than a decade of investigation into how the United States waged the war on terror both at home and abroad. Picking up where classic critiques of Vietnam-era militarism left off, Kennard traces how a hollowed-out empire kept up its occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan by recruiting those it had once formally excluded: neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, and violent felons. The result is a portrait of how contemporary US imperialism funct