War is a mere continuation of policy by other means. Clausewitz On the Nature of War. The goal of war, according to the detailed study by Clausewitz in his masterpiece "On the Nature of War," is to disarm your enemy so you can bend them to your will. Do we have the manufacturing base to build an army? Where is it? If modern warfare is based on technology, do we build our own computers or cell phones? Who builds them? Do we have the money to rebuild our army? Who is our creditor? If you are honest, you will see that we are on our last legs. We have almost no time left, because we lost the war, our enemy has disarmed us without ever firing a shot and all that after giving us the playbook by which it would be done. This colossal failure of leadership is only possible because of the corruption in our government inherent not with the politicians, but the election process which requires corruption and misdirection to work.This book is about war, corruption and the close link between the two. Corruption in this case is not because there are bad men going into office, but they are corrupted by a system of entitlement and progressively more expensive and beholding election processes which infinitely successive short terms require. It assumes that the attempts set forth in www.mofthg.com and other sites to rectify the core problems will fail or will fail to work fast enough. The Chinese explain in detail how they successfully defeated the United States in a book written thousands of years before the war started and which is widely read in the United States today. It is quoted in this book. Why no one understood it as widely read as it was is uncertain. One proposed reason is that as a race we are primitive and ignorant, however wise individuals are. Another is that it is easier for everyone to ignore the 2,000-pound gorilla in the elevator than it is to acknowledge that we are riding with it. This book contains some suggestions to stem the tide of failure. The answers are simple and complicated. You will be able to obtain, at the end of this book, paraphernalia and to join groups geared towards solving the most basic problems. Getting rid of the problems that corrupt our government is simple. Dealing with China is complex and is nothing more or less than this; we must wage war. Fortunately, as you recognize if you are reading this, war does not involve bloodshed except at its most primitive, inefficient extreme. If our enemy has not yet shown the will to destroy us, to bend us completely to its will, then there is yet an opportunity, but the opportunity is to wage economic war with all of its sacrifices and patriotism and the need to do so is more immediate than this book can express. It must be done "yesterday" in the vernacular. Perhaps by the time you read this it will already be too late. While the primary theme of the book deals with why we lost the war with China, since we have not surrendered yet, it spends a great deal of time looking at the future and what we should consider in making a lasting peace. The remainder of this book is fiction.