On Point: Deep State and Big Debt: America's Self-Inflicted Strategic Threat
by Austin Bay
February 19, 2025
The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable -- until you realize these hysterics present a serious threat to U.S. national security.
President Dwight Eisenhower's no longer with us, but we have his National Security Council 162/2 report, dated Oct. 30, 1953. Once top secret, it's now on the internet.
Ike's West Point gut told him America faced a long and dreary strategic siege, and to pay for the win, we needed wealth -- meaning a long-term productive and growing economy.
Give Harry Truman all-American props. Ike's analytic report clarified, expanded and operationalized the Truman administration's NCS-68, which framed the containment strategy that ultimately won The Cold War.
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