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

The War Conspiracy

The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War by Peter Dale Scott Publisher: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press Order this book online or see its Selected Book page for comments and reviews.   Peter Dale Scott has for decades been "minding the darkness," studying and reporting on the deeper aspects of our national tragedies. The original 1972 edition of The War Conspiracy dissected the many ways in which the escalation and continuation of the Vietnam conflict was not driven from the top down, but rather by means of a series of seemingly accidental bombings, aggressive operations in the field, suspicious intelligence failures and the like. Declassifications and more recent accounts have generally supported Scott's analysis; for example, it is now commonly conceded that the second Tonkin Gulf attack, after which Congress granted LBJ a blank check to prosecute the Vietnam war, never actually occurred. In this fully updated 2008 edition, Scott provides a current view on the events described in the book, whose pattern is unfortunately not limited to the Indochina war. This new edition also features two major additions: • The Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War. In this essay, written in 1971 but not included in The War Conspiracy, Scott argues that the alleged JFK-LBJ continuity in Vietnam policy is anything but. This view has been corroborated by documentary releases and other accounts by Newman, McNamara, Galbraith, Jones, and others. • JFK, 9/11 and War: Recurring Patterns in America's Deep Events. This lengthy new essay draws a striking number of parallels between the Kennedy assassination and the 9/11 attacks, and by doing so points the way for further examination of both. Peter Dale Scott on JFK & Vietnam Historians and JFK-LBJ Continuity on Vietnam. Peter Dale Scott, author of the first scholarly article arguing that the Kennedy-LBJ transition was not one of continuity, discussing the conflict among historians on this issue (running time: 3:51). The Change in Policy. Peter Scott discusses JFK-LBJ continunity on Vietnam for this and the question of why the battlefield assessments in Vietnam took a marked turn for the worse after Kennedy's death (running time: 2:28). For more details, read Peter Scott's essay The Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War on History Matters website. An updated version of this essay appears in the new edition of The War Conspiracy. See also this walkthrough of 1963 Vietnam policy documents. For more on Kennedy Vietnam policy and the JFK-LBJ transition, see Kennedy and Vietnam.

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