Historian Andrew Bacevich reframes 120 years of American warfare into a series of decades-spanning geographic exercises with a unified aim - imperial control of the globe, blinding us to the devastating costs of war and true consequences of our actions abroad, and explains why this election's choice between a lunatic and a Reaganite offers no hope for a change from our disastrous reliance on military force to create and solve problems abroad.

Andrew wrote the Harper's article American Imperium: Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war and the book America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History from Penguin Random House.