How to Run Wars

A copy of the top-secret memo below recently came into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention!Dear National Security Elite: In an ideal world, the public would simply accept whatever their leadersyou, in other wordstold them. They would comply with restrictions and mandates, not as a matter of mere obedience, but as a matter of unquestionable patriotic duty. But we dont live in an ideal world. And with the fate of the world, especially the worlds wars, in the hands of our enlightened, benevolent, and eminentlyresponsible national security elitein your hands, in other wordswe cant afford to risk opening the conversation to an informed public. And we certainly cant risk asking for anything so antiquated as consent, either. Not when the stakes are this high. You simply must learn: How to control the narrativeevery narrativein your favor; How to completely capture the media and effectively quash dissent; How destroying liberty creates more liberty in the long (long) run; Why top-down economic planning, here and abroad, is your best friend; How to flout international, and of course domestic, law and get away with it; And much, much more The danger with any book like this is, obviously, that it may fall into the wrong hands. If any member of the general public should happen upon these pages, the consequences would be fatal. After all, people may realize that the national security eliteyou, in other wordsare not, in fact, all-powerful harbingers of peace They may realize that you are, literally, a force for good armed and relentlessly attempting to bend the planet to your noble will. And that realization would be nothing short of disastrous. Dont let this book fall into the wrong hands! Merciless in their penetrating analysis, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail Hall have written the satirical portrait of Americas contemporary military-industrial complex. Drawing inspiration from the 1936 classic How to Run a War, by Bruce W. Knight, this book is a must-read for anyone who would know the truth about Americas endless wars and the people who run them. The truth might just set us free. It will certainly make you laugh. Thenreally angry.