The War State: The M-I-C and Power Elite

Michael Swanson (The War State); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The War State: The Cold War Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex and the Power Elite

The War State: The Origins of the Power Elite

Today when we factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures, the US spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military.

It accounts for over 46% of total world arms spending. Before World War II it spent almost nothing on war defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes.

We can't have big wars without big government. Such big expenditures are now threatening to harm the national economy. How did this situation come to be?

In this book we learn how in the critical 20 years after World War II the United States changed from being a continental democratic republic to a global imperial superpower.

Since then, nothing has been the same. Discover this secret history of the United States that formed the basis of the world today. Furthermore, discover:

The CIA rules the world

• Why the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was created and used to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations when the US Constitution had no mechanism for such imperial activities.
• How the end of European colonialism created a power vacuum that the United States used to create a new type of world empire backed by the most powerful military force in human history.
• How national security bureaucrats got Pres. Harry Truman to approve of a new wild budget busting arms race after WW II that is still going on to this day.
• Why Pres. Eisenhower really gave his famous warning against the "military-industrial complex."
• Why during the Kennedy administration, the nuclear arms race almost led to the end of the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis.



I can't believe I was part of the War Machine.

• How Pres. Kennedy tried to deal with what had grown into a "permanent government" of power elite national security bureaucrats in the executive branch of the federal government that had become more powerful than the individual president himself.

In this book readers discover this secret history of the US that formed the basis of the world today.

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