The Chosen Minister of War - He likes war

The Chosen Secretary of War opens with the president’s casual remark, “He likes war,” a line that reawakens Daniel Mercer’s buried trauma. Years earlier, as a pilot, Daniel helped bomb his wife’s homeland, drawing her sister’s family into death, separation, and lifelong grief. Decades later, Evan Hawk rises as a new Secretary of War, turning fear, power, and applause into a call for renewed conflict. Across Washington, Belgrade, and Beijing, broken pens, bread, photographs, and testimony reveal the human cost of fire—and ask whom war truly serves after the speeches end.