The new edition of the author's insightful and often troubling analysis of American foreign policy focuses on the unintended negative consequences of American actions abroad, from forced globalism to environmental disasters, in an updated study that addresses recent international events, including S[...]

A stunning exposure of the policies that have led to American imperialism and the massive military deployment that accompanies it, The Sorrows of Empire proposes that the US could suffer the same "overstretch" that led to the demise of the Soviet Union. Johnson outlines the cost of Empire, both for [...]