h exalts the life of the troops, and smacks the reader back to reality. He spares no one or anything from his ferocious stare. Instead, Scranton highlights for the reader what war means from the perspectives of the occupiers and the oppressed. It discusses the misery of war, its devastation, and the crimes intentional or not that the US army committed during that timeThe novel alternates between multiple settings: the first is a warm and drama-filled barbeque party for a small group of post-college liberals in Utah, and the second is a more menacing war front in Iraq, where a veteran named Wilson talks about his view and experience of the war and how he is somehow dehumanized into a total killing machine while the third is about a mathematics student who is ripped apart by the occupation and invasion of Iraq. The novel is analyzed according to Galtung’s violence triangle theory, in which the novel demonstrates a lot of events that represent direct, structural, and even cultural violence, cultural violence is the main focus of this paper.