Tim Hayes • Iron Mountain : A Blueprint for Tyranny

“WAR IS REQUIRED”

War is required, it’s the glue of the nations according to the Iron Mountain report. The document says:

“War itself is the basic social system, within which others are secondary modes of organisation, conflict or conspire. It is the system which has governed most human societies of record as it is today.The capacity of a nation to make war is the greatest social power it can exercise; war making, active or contemplated, is a matter of life and death. The misconceptions of war: to defend a nation from military attack by another or to deter such attack”.

“The basic authority of the modern state over its people resides in its war powers. Therefore, a substitute for the war system must be found in order to control the People and provide stability and legitimacy of government if we go into an era of peace. Obviously, if the war machine is discarded, new political machinery would be needed at once. Until the substitute for war is developed, the continuance of the war system must be assured. To maintain the stability of its internal organization of power. Credibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political substitute for war. We must emphasize that one must be found of credible quality and magnitude if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration. It is more probable in our judgement, that such a threat will have to be invented, rather than developed from some unknown conditions”.