There is an old saying in journalism that the first casualty of war is truth. What Vikram Sood argues in The Ultimate Goal is far more unsettling: truth may not be the casualty at all—it may never have been invited to the battlefield in the first place. We live in an age where people can watch the same event and emerge with entirely different conclusions. A protest becomes a freedom movement for one group and a threat to national security for another. A military interventio

There are books you read with a pen in hand, underlining arguments, marking dates. And then there are books you read with your shoulders slightly tense, jaw tight, phone face-down beside you, because the world it speaks of is not safely contained between covers. Toward Armageddon belongs to the second kind. I found myself reading it not at a desk, but late at night, the room quiet, news alerts deliberately silenced—because this narrative already carried enough noise, grief, a

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