L. Fletcher Prouty is a retired Air Force Colonel. He was a member of the Office of the Secretary of Defence and the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after having served five years with the Plans Directorate, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force...The last nine years of Prouty's service, ending in 1963, were spent in the Pentagon as the Official Focal Point Officer – first for the Air Force and then for the entire Department of Defense with the CIA. All CIA military activities were channelled through him. Not being a CIA man, Prouty was exempt from taking an oath of secrecy...
Prouty is a graduate of of several U.S. Armed Force Nuclear Weapons schools and the Armed Forces Staff College, where the first "Theatre Nuclear Operations" were taught to senior officers...
Prouty describes the realities of the nuclear age... Above all, he explains who is running the show. Take special note when he tells you how the same people, by establishing safe havens for themselves and their families, are always around to profit from the next war.
VIETNAM
"This explains the odd, controlled no-win construction of the Vietnam war whose only purpose was to consume weapons."
"Once a missile is launched, even if by accident, there is no way of stopping it. And by the time a missile is launched, a counter force has already been put in motion. The war has begun before the first nuclear warhead has been detonated; that's the setup."
"It's like throwing a ping-pong ball into a roomfull of mousetraps: when the ball hits one trap, all the others will snap. Thus the idea of a "limited" or "strategic" or "conventional" nuclear war is an absolute myth."
There is too much money in the game of war, too much to be gained by it. With the numbers of deadly weapons we produce, someday, accidentally or on purpose, they're going to be used.
"The way the power group consolidates its wealth and power is by keeping the munitions industry in full gear, weapons that are produced must be consumed in battle, so from time to time, there must be wars in one part of the globe of other. The power group knows that nuclear war will totally destroy all major countries involved and at least make the entire northern hemisphere of the earth uninhabitable for generations. Yet it is in the financial interests of the power group, which reaps immense profit from munitions, to keep on producing such weapons."
"This presents a neat dilemma: either it takes a chance with many less-than-nuclear wars, or it goes ahead with nuclear war and gambles on finding some place to hide. While hoping for "the best", the group is preparing for the worst. Even now, a scenario is being developed by the multinational warmakers to save their own wealth, power and necks — not yours or mine."
"Weaponry and bases of action are moving south. Diego Garcia is a new naval base in the southern hemisphere. It can serve to support a military force of sufficient size to dominate what may be left of the world after a nuclear exchange... The ark is ready, they are now preparing Ararat before the rains of missiledom fall."
L. Fletcher Prouty
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