I’ve been reading “Hidden Hand” and came upon this little diatribe…,
CHAPTER 22. IRON MOUNTAIN
Man destroys surplus members of his own species by organized warfare.
War is the principal motivational force for the development of science…
War is a… general social release… for the dissipation of general boredom.
War… enables the physically deteriorating older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary.
An excellent summation of the report is contained in a novel by Taylor Caldwell, entitled Ceremony of the Innocent. She wrote:"… there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities — until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement — in the name of peace."°
Apparently the individual who wrote that “War was Peace” knew what he was talking about.
Then there is this:
The report then goes on to detail what the “invisible functions” of war are:
War… is the principal organizing force in most societies. … The possibility of war provided the sense of external necessity without which no government can long remain in power.
The historical record reveals one instance after another where the failure… of a regime to maintain the credibility of a war threat led to its dissolution.
War… provides anti-social elements with an acceptable role in the social structure.
The younger, and more dangerous, of these hostile social groupings have been kept under control by the Selective Service