"They say that if you love something, you should set it free," the manual explains. "This is how you must think about individual liberty."
That's just one of many nuggets of sardonic wisdom offered in How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite. An instruction guide written in the same satiric tradition as The Screwtape Letters and Report From Iron Mountain, this book by the libertarian economists Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall draws on real examples across U.S. history to teach today's imperialists how to manipulate the media, suppress dissent, commandeer the economy, and rationalize every crime along the way.
