Rosa Brooks is a columnist for Foreign Policy, a scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a professor of law at Georgetown University. She's also the author of a new book, "How Everything Became War, and the Military Became Everything." Brooks sat down with former Mother Jones editor and lecturer Deirdre English to talk about everything from The War on Terror to the expanding role of the U.S. military.

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