In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2002 he published War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, which the Los Angeles Timesdescribed as ''the best kind of war journalism... bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical'' and the New York Times called ''a brilliant,thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book.'' In the twenty years since, Hedges has not wanted to write another book on the subject of war until now, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is important again to be reminded who are the victors of the spoils of war and
