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Open in the appCosmopolemos /koz-mə-pol'e-mos/ noun The ordered universe of war From Greek kósmos (order, universe) and pólemos (war, personification of war) The United States alone accounts for 40% of global military spending. In the period between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the… Cosmopolemos /koz-mə-pol'e-mos/ noun The ordered universe of war From Greek kósmos (order, universe) and pólemos (war, personification of war) The United States alone accounts for 40% of global military spending. In the period between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Department of Defense entered into contracts worth a total of 6,500 billion dollars, representing more than 43 million transactions. They concern everything from oil reserves and nuclear weapons to cookies or cleaning services. These data are not secret, but their scale and complexity make them difficult to understand. In order to account for this dizzying edifice of power, Clark and Black adopt the form of the printed encyclopedia. Today often considered obsolete, it has for centuries served humanity in describing the almost indecipherable complexity of the world around it. Drawing from the Department of Defense photo galleries and words from their captions or descriptions of transactions, Clark and Black construct an encyclopedic analysis of the commercial relationships that underpin the hegemony of the world's first superpower.