But Alex Garland’s Civil War is disturbingly accurate in its portrayal of what it’s like to cover such a conflict. Some are now seriously asking if the US is on the path to civil war. The result is an armed conflict between state and federal forces: civil war. He describes the US now as a “tinderbox” and says the country is at a turning point, one path leading to peace and prosperity, the other to civil war or revolution. The “single most reliable leading indicator of civil war or revolution is bankrupt government finances combined with big wealth gaps,” he said.