Is America hooked on war? -- Shock and awe : how we got hit -- How to garrison a planet -- Air war, barbarity, and collateral damage -- The language of war, American-style -- The Bush legacy : what they did (wrong) -- Obama's war -- Living in the shadow of war -- Premature withdrawal.;Tom Engelhardt, creator of the vital website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to late last night, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end. Since 2001, Tom Englehardt has written regular reports for his popular site TomDispatch that have provided badly needed insight into US militarism and its effects, both at home and abroad. When others were celebrating the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, he warned of the enormous dangers of both occupations. In The American Way of War, Engelhardt documents.