“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Moments) written “with clarity and…wit” (The New York Times Book Review) in what happens when the old boundary between battle and serenity is erased.

Once, battle was a brief state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are almost everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely put on uniforms, and practically anything can become a weapon. As war expands, so does the part of the united states military. Military workers now analyze pc code, train about How Everything Became Battle and the Armed service Became Everything: Tales from your Pentagon Afghan judges, build Ebola isolation wards, eavesdrop on electronic communications, develop soap operas, and patrol for pirates. You name it, the armed service does it.

In this “ambitious and astute” (The Washington Post) work, Rosa Brooks “offers a masterful analysis” (SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle) of the seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective-that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and married for an Army Green Beret. By converts a memoir, a function of journalism, a scholarly exploration of history, anthropology, and laws, How Everything Became Battle and the Army Became Everything is an “illuminating” (THE BRAND NEW York Occasions), “eloquent” (The Boston World), “courageous” (US Information & World Report), and “essential” (The Dallas Morning News) examination of the function of the armed service today. Above all, it is a rallying cry, for Brooks issues an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we undermine both America’s founding values and the international rules and companies that keep the world from slipping towards chaos.