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What if terrorism isn't defined by who uses violence-but by how violence is used? Empire of Fear: When Power Becomes Terror applies a single, consistent standard to modern state power and asks a question most societies avoid: when fear is deliberately used to coerce civilian populations for political ends, does legality or scale change the moral reality? Drawing on declassified government documents, civilian casualty databases, international law, military doctrine, and investigative journalism, this book examines how contemporary power operates through: drone warfare and remote killing, economic sanctions that devastate civilian life, proxy forces and covert operations, infrastructure targeting and psychological warfare, media framing and legal insulation. This is not an anti-American polemic and not a partisan argument. It is a methodical, evidence-driven investigation into how terror can be bureaucratized, normalized, and denied when exercised by dominant states rather than fringe actors. The book takes counterarguments seriously-addressing claims of necessity, deterrence, humanitarian intent, and ""lesser evil"" logic-before arriving at an uncomfortable conclusion: fear does not stop being fear because it is authorized, legalized, or well-intentioned. Empire of Fear offers no easy villains and no comforting absolution. It confronts the gap between national self-image and lived consequences, and asks what accountability would actually require if democracies are to survive permanent war. This is a book for readers willing to follow evidence where it leads-and to question power without abandoning rigor.

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