The War Conspiracy

JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War

Peter Dale Scott

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781626360952
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628735642
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by “accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the “deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.
An important analysis into the causes of war and the long-lasting effects that major events in American history can have on foreign and military policies, The War Conspiracy is a must-read book for students of American history and foreign policy, and anyone interested in the ways that domestic tragedies can be used to manipulate the country’s direction.
First published in 1972, this edition of The War Conspiracy is fully updated for the twenty-first century and includes two lengthy additional essays, one on the transition in Vietnam policy in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, and the other discussing the many parallels between that 1963 event and the attacks of 9/11.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Editor’s Preface (2008)
• The War Conspiracy
• The War Conspiracy (1972)
• Introduction
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• FIRST AFTERWORD: JFK, LBJ, AND THE MYSTERY OF NSAM 273
• The Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War (1971)
• Text of National Security Action Memorandum No. 273 (NSAM 273, as published 1991)
• Postscript (2001)
• Second Afterword: JFK, 9/11, and War:
• INDEX