Simon Schuster</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The first serious book to examine what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.<BR><BR>Once war was a temporary state of affairsa violent but brief interlude between times of peace. Today Americas wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war expands so does the role of the US military. Today military personnel dont just kill people and break stuff. Instead they analyze computer code train Afghan judges build Ebola isolation wards eavesdrop on electronic communications develop soap operas and patrol for pirates. You name it the military does it.<BR> <BR>Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspectivethat of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Beret. Her experiences lead her to an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear we risk destroying Americas founding values and the laws and institutions weve builtand undermining the international rules and organizations that keep our world from sliding towards chaos. If Russia and China have recently grown bolder in their foreign adventures?? it??s no accident; US preced