War

Questioning conventional wisdom about WWII. Regarding the claim that had we not entered the war, we'd all speak German now:

"The German General Staff, which had codenamed contingency invasion/occupation plans for dozens of nations (even one for the never-tried conquest of Switzerland called "Operation Christmas") had none for the USA. Neither did the Japanese High Command. Neither nation's economy was ever fully mobilized for total war to the extent the USA's and Great Britain's had been."

Dictators don't fight all-out wars because they're too destructive. They fight wars for personal gain. Japan's rulers hoped to make quick gains against the US and reach a quick settlement. They knew they couldn't defeat the US. No doubt Germany's rulers knew the same. Neither military bothered to develop the capability to invade the US.

"Even Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (the chief planner of the Pearl Harbor attack) spoke warningly of "a rifle behind every blade of grass" when discussions of invading the USA came up."

Another great reason for private firearm ownership.

"Authors Meirion and Sue Harries disclosed in their 1992 book "Soldiers of The Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army" that for each US GI there was an average of four tons of material produced, for the Japanese counterpart, an average of two pounds."

Wow.

"Worst of all, much of the above was already well known by the Roosevelt administration before Pearl Harbor."

Some tend to forget WWII had been going on for several years before Pearl Harbor.

"The winner of W.W. II, tragically, was in reality not the Allies but instead the theory and practice of the large-scale coercive collectivist state, be it in the form of Communism or the large-scale welfare/warfare states of various types and the consequent rise of a violent, unstable, impoverished Third World addicted to the benefits of the same as cavalierly dispensed by the meddlesome mandarins of the First World. True, since 1945 we've been speaking a different language, and it's not German, Japanese, or even Russian or Chinese. Rather, it's the language of socialism couched in perpetual, petulant demands for ever-more forced, taxpayer-supported "fairness and social justice" on a global scale (commonly called "humanitarian intervention") at the heavy expense of true peace, prosperity, and individual liberty. And the price, as usual in the imposition and maintenance of socialism, was and still is the untold millions of dead, impoverished, miserable, and imprisoned."

This is another great essay.

War is the health of the state.

Claim that assassination of McKinley launched a century of war. Here are the real motives for war.

"The London Saturday Review, an upper class journal, writes on 24 August 1895:

"We English have always waged war against our competitors in trade and transport. Our main competitor today is no longer France, but Germany…. In a war against Germany we would be in a position to win a lot and to lose nothing." (Page 34)

On 1 February 1896 the same journal writes:

"If tomorrow every German were eliminated, there would be no British business nor any English enterprise which would not profit (lit "grow"). If every Englishman were to vanish tomorrow, the Germans would reap gains…. One of the two must quit the field. Get ready for the fight with Germany, for Germaniam esse delendam." (Page 34)

Germany must be destroyed…." 

Here is the pretense.

"As early as about 1870, in the immediate context of German unification, Stead advocated union between the British empire and the United States and came to defend what he called a "true Imperialism" aimed at the peace, security, unity, and humanitarian uplift of the world."

Progressives have been using the humanitarian message to hide their economic aspirations for empire forever.

"The assassination of McKinley – a Rockefeller man favorable toward Germany – ensured the replacement by Teddy Roosevelt, a Morgan man. Morgan, favorably disposed toward Britain, had his man in place – a move that would ensure the US moves closer to Britain."

It makes sense.