{"product_id":"the-war-comes-home-how-battlefield-technology-is-reshaping-cities-policing-and-civilian-life-9798243949224","title":"The War Comes Home: How Battlefield Technology Is Reshaping Cities, Policing, and Civilian Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gyorgy Czinu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International Relations - Arms Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe War Comes Home is a narrative exploration of how battlefield logic quietly migrates into civilian life-not through tanks and soldiers, but through systems, habits, and expectations designed for permanent readiness.\u003cbr\u003eThe book argues that modern societies have not become overtly authoritarian. Instead, they have become \u003ci\u003emanaged\u003c\/i\u003e. Under the pressure of constant crisis, tools once justified as temporary-surveillance, automation, secrecy, accelerated decision-making-have been normalized into everyday governance. What was designed to protect civilian life has begun to replace it.\u003cbr\u003eAcross ten chapters, the book traces this transformation step by step: \u003cbr\u003efrom fear without explosions, to responsibility without decision-makers;\u003cbr\u003efrom silence framed as stability, to normalization mistaken for maturity;\u003cbr\u003efrom participation hollowed into performance, to resilience reduced to endurance.\u003cbr\u003eRather than focusing on ideology or conspiracy, The War Comes Home examines structure, habit, and psychology. It shows how societies can remain functional, innovative, and orderly while slowly losing civic agency, shared meaning, and the expectation that public life belongs to those who live in it.\u003cbr\u003eThe final chapters turn away from diagnosis and toward reckoning. Not solutions, not optimism - but recognition. What remains civilian even after normalization. What cannot be restored. And why small, quiet practices - explanation, disagreement, patience, care - are not neutral leftovers, but the last line between public life and permanent management.\u003cbr\u003eWritten in a reflective, investigative voice inspired by long-form nonfiction and cultural analysis, The War Comes Home is not a warning about collapse. It is a study of erosion - how societies survive crises successfully, and in doing so, forget what survival was meant to protect.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about modern life lived under invisible emergency - and about what still resists becoming normal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594851238039,"sku":"9798243949224","price":1517.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798243949224.webp?v=1774987449","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-war-comes-home-how-battlefield-technology-is-reshaping-cities-policing-and-civilian-life-9798243949224","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}