The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War

First published in 1972, this edition of THE WAR CONSPIRACY is fully updated for 2008, 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 9/11/01. 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 being directed by presidents. This book explores the "deep politics" which exerts a profound but too-little understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.