The world is a battlefield. In this remarkable story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror journalist Jeremy Scahill documents the new paradigm of American war: fought far from any declared battlefield by units that do not officially exist in thousands of operations a month that are never publicly acknowledged. From Afghanistan & Pakistan to Yemen Somalia & beyond Scahill speaks to the CIA agents mercenaries & elite Special Operations Forces operators who populate the dark side of the many wars America is fighting. He goes deep into al Qaeda
- held territory in Yemen & walks the streets of Mogadishu with CIA-backed warlords. We also meet the survivors of U.S. night raids & drone strikes
- including families of U.S. citizens targeted for assassination by their own government
- who reveal the human consequences of the dirty wars the United States struggles to keep hidden.