Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power.

There are important books, and there are popular books. Sadly the two don’t often overlap. Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, an exposé of the criminality and violence carried out by returning Special Forces personnel in American communities, is a rare exception. The book rocketed onto the New York Times bestseller list and is now set to be turned into an HBO series.

Its splash seems almost tailor-made for this moment. Harp’s book is making waves just as Donald Trump uses a supposed cr

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