Editor's note: This is a highly recommended essay on how the US military and the Pentagon since 1947 have morphed into an unelected ruling dark empire of death unto itself. Think that is an exaggeration?
Col. Michael Aquino (deceased) took it offensively a giant step further, co-authoring with his then boss Col. Paul Vallely a 1980 paper called "
From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory," pushing for waging perpetual psychological warfare through propaganda and mind control against friend and foe alike, including on the American people. The essence of what MindWar stands for is "the deliberate, aggressive convincing of all participants in a war that we will win that war."
MindWar's co-author General Vallely retired in 1991 and has been a Fox News media pundit with his own patriotic "Stand Up America" website. It's likely mission is to
pacify and control any potential patriotic resistance to the Pentagon that may spontaneously rise up in America.
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Flashback 1930s: A Time Before Military Adulation
By
Steve Penfield | September 9, 2024 |
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Before the federal takeover of broadcasting took hold about a century ago, Americans had a healthy distrust of military propaganda. Now that independent journalism is taking shape on the internet, the D.C. Imperials are having to work harder to whip up the next batch of War Fever. Let’s hope they keep failing.
Long before U.S. politicians gave their overwhelming support for brutal massacres in Vietnam to Iraq to Palestine, Americans let their empty pride of "winning" two world wars dissolve their prior restraint from engaging in such reckless violence. The
pro-war censorship of global elites today is merely a continuation of the press crack downs in the 1930s that silenced its critics and struck fear into others for generations to come. But it wasn't always this way.