From CW2 Cube to Culture War 2.1: How Matt Bracken’s Theory Evolved into Today’s Fragmented America

In the early 2010s, retired Navy SEAL and political novelist Matt Bracken published a provocative essay titled “CW2 Cube. In it, he proposed a three-dimensional model for understanding how a second American civil war might play out—not along neat geographic lines, but via complex interrelations of race, ideology, and allegiance to government authority.