With the war spreading nationwide by 2016, life in America will be at its most brutal in 2017. Supply lines to population centers will have been interrupted by then; both cities and rural areas will suffer fatal shortages of food, medicine, and fuel, and desperate competition for dwindling resources will become a universal concern. A generation that grew up amid plenty will learn want. A generation addicted to texting, tweeting, and gaming will be ill prepared when a nation saturated with weapons becomes a killing field.