The White House claims our hostility toward the newly christened "Axis of Evil" countries is a bold step for democracy, but to many it may also resemble the awkward, violent posturing of a crumbling empire. Few Americans today would call the US an empire, but Masters of War confronts the uncomfortable reality that our legacy of military power runs long and deep. In this book, many of the anti-war movement's most vocal and intelligent critics - including Noam Chomsky, Norman Solomon, Chalmers Johnson, Michael Parenti and more - expose the now unparalleled military domination America has over the world's landmasses, sea lanes and air spaces, with great aspirations toward colonization of outer space. Consuming nearly USD350 billion annually - or roughly 22 times the combined total of the seven most purportedly menacing rogue states - the sprawling Pentagon imperium deploys more than 350 major bases around the world, crucial to monitoring and protecting world order. Even as the US continues to celebrate the virtues of international order, human rights and democracy, its ruling elites have become increasingly reckless and violent, brazenly violating many of the global norms and laws they pretend to uphold. American dominion has begun breeding widespread dysfunction, resistance, and opposition like to make the twenty-first century a time of sustained, generally unanticipated "blowback". Masters of War reminds us that worldwide economic and military dominance has its price.