A generation has come of age that cannot remember a time when America wasn't at war. In September, the United States entered the 17th year in its global war on terror. The bodies, the bullets, the bombs and the blood have seeped over into a third administration, perhaps the most menacing and unpredictable one yet.
As the public has grown weary of war, the enemy — not a singular unified force but rather an adaptive and evolving ideology — has sprawled the globe. At the same time, the footprint of the U.S. military has grown exponentially — two reactionary actors that have emboldened one another.
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