ABSTRACT
The security councils of the historical colonial empires were horrified to observe that not only were populations on the periphery of empire who provided their cheap resources taking the rhetoric of democracy seriously and breaking free, but the empires were losing traditional allies. After World War II, when Hitler's armies were driven from Eastern Europe, a Soviet system of government was installed in all but Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The chapter discusses what Western nations were observing, the potential loss of the resources and markets of their "countryside" as the cities of Europe had experienced centuries earlier. "National security" and "security interests", which citizens were coached to believe meant fear of a military attack, really meant maintaining access to the weak, impoverished world's valuable resources. The chapter describes Korean War as the most important political event since World War II. Roughly 30 percent of America's post-World War II jobs were created as an economic multiplier from those Cold War arms expenditures.
