The War State

The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963

By: Michael Swanson

Narrated by: Larry Wayne

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States 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 defense and hardly anyone paid any income taxes. You 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 you'll 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 ever been the same again. In this book you will discover this secret history of the United States that formed the basis of the world we live in today.

By buying this book you will discover:

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.

Why the Central Intelligence Agency was created and used to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations when the United States Constitution had no mechanism for such imperial activities.

How national security bureaucrats got President Harry Truman to approve of a new wild budget busting arms race after World War II that is still going on to this day.

Why President 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.

How President 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 audiobook you will discover this secret history of the United States that formed the basis of the world we live in today.

©2013 Michael Swanson (P)2014 Listen and Think Audio

Required Reading

For anyone who wants to understand the present state of government in the US, this is a great place to start.

Best Explanation I've Heard

This book gives an excellent explanation as to why our nation has high inflation, high gas prices and several other problems and lays it put in a bipartisan fair matter

A must read for all veterans and active duty.

How we got here with easy to verify facts. The narrator is excellent. I bought the book to go back over important points.

Excellent

Excellent book. It really helped me understand and put in context our current military situation.

American Citizens desperately need to know our real history!

As the author points out, Truman & Eisenhower figured out too late that the “military industrial complex” with their creation, the CIA, were taking over the USA, it’s people and it’s economy. Kennedy was on to them and ready to take our country back when he was killed. This book should be required reading for all Americans before we all go bankrupt! War corporations are using our tax money paid to them for war materials to control our congress to keep the war state going. Wake up America!

Please give this book your time.

If we understand our history we may save our future. This book may bring the "Peace Minded" left and the "America First" right together in common ground.

Superb account of history and how and why we are where we are as a country

I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style of the author of this book, which were based on facts and analysis, overall, an outstanding read!!
Looking forward to more books by this author.

The History You Don't Get in School

Mind blowing information. I used to think this was just mindless propaganda but once you listen to the information and connect the dots everything makes so much sense ! Don't delay listening or reading this book.

Too little too late?

If you could sum up The War State in three words, what would they be?

Finally The Truth

What other book might you compare The War State to and why?

Not a book, but a video available on Amazon called "9/11 - Explosive Evidence - The Experts Speak Out". Actually, to me the case is clear that that story and this one go hand in hand. We're a nation of sheep that will believe whatever our government tells us, and whatever we see presented to us on television news programs. Ask yourself how many of those news organizations are owned by parents of military contractors (eg. GE). 40% of our national budget to wage war on bearded Arabs hiding in caves? Is anyone actually THINKING out there?

What does Larry Wayne bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

It was a good read. No annoying habits, and read at a comfortable pace.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did in fact... two days ony because of sleep.

Any additional comments?

We're a plane crashing already. Can we pull up? Yes. Will we? After seventy years? Look what happened to John Kennedy when he tried. Sure though: Let's try. In fact, let's start by insisting on a FULL investigation of who really dropped the twin towers on 9/11. Hint: Defense spending took off after the new enemy that "can't be beat": TERRORISM!! One quote from the video mentioned earlier: "There has never been a case where a highrise building collapsed because of fire." Another? Both towers, along with building 7 fell at "freefall rate". That is, at the rate at which a ball would fall if dropped from the roof at the same time the collapse began. That's impossible with steel highrises with the lower floors still intact. WATCH THE VIDEO: READ THIS BOOK!

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loved it, very informative gives you a prospective on where you stand and where you think you stand