The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future

Stephen Marche - The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American
Future
July 5

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is
how.

On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the
federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff
with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner,
a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American
president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet
splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners
and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges
entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees
overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and
years of catastrophic droughts—and tips America over the edge into
ruin.

These nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five
possibilities most likely to spark devastating chaos in the United
States that are brought to life in The Next Civil War, a chilling
and deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction. Drawing upon
sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred interviews
with experts—civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement
officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists,
environmentalists, war historians, and political
scientists—journalist Stephen Marche predicts the terrifying future
collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in front
of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency
experts about what it would take to control the population of the
United States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have
already been drawn up. Not by novelists, but by colonels.

No matter your political leaning, most of us can sense that America
is barreling toward catastrophe—of one kind or another. Relevant
and revelatory, The Next Civil War plainly breaks down the looming
threats to America and is a must-read for anyone concerned about
the future of its people, its land, and its government.

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