CIA Archives — Discern Life (Hebrews 5:14)

War is a Protection Racket

Only Rule: To Win-But for Whom?
What America Learned from World War II

Upon his retirement from the United States Marine Corps, General Smedley Butler warned citizens of how their government used the military in support of the Progressive Era’s business-financial complex, as shown above. President Eisenhower, upon his retirement made a similar observation concerning the growing power of the military-industrial complex. American citizens ignored these experienced military leaders. The Progressive Era, after the Revolution of 1913, forged national socialism at home under the guise of World War I (WWI). However, many of these gains were rolled back when WWI ended. Even the Great Depression’s fostering of government expansion could not return to the heady days socialism achieved during WWI. However, between the world wars President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) forged a service to supply the missing ingredient to keep socialism from unraveling after the next war: World War II (WWII). Today’s coming Great Reset is a product of these forces which previous generations ignored and which today’s generation continues to ignore. Remember, there is only one rule: To win! No one seems to ask the obvious: For Whom? Continue reading “Only Rule: To Win-But for Whom?” →

Cuban Missile Crisis Began Long Before
These Men had to Deal with its Realities

The title, Truman and the Cuban Missile Crisis, may puzzle those few readers who think they know their history; however, the reality is that Truman initiated the events that caused this and nearly every subsequent crisis in American foreign policy. In my two previous posts, Pathway to American Impoverishment and International Manifest Destiny Rise and Fall, we discussed the beginnings of the Truman Doctrine, Marshal Plan and the United Nations as organs to extend both the Democratic Party’s and America’s power domestically and abroad. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a result of these policies, sans the United Nations (UN), and the addition of one other ingredient: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Only Rule: To Win-But for Whom? What America Learned from World War II

Cuban Missile Crisis Began Long Before These Men had to Deal with its Realities

Only Rule: To Win-But for Whom?
What America Learned from World War II

Cuban Missile Crisis Began Long Before
These Men had to Deal with its Realities