The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump

This exposé of US foreign policy explores US involvement in the Middle East from Reagan to Trump—and how the failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria have increased threats to national security.

In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs.

Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin...