OT Thanks bringing this up again. We discussed this topic before on a different forum. I actually bought that book "Empire of the City" I started it when I first got it, but never had a chance to finish it and it's now buried under others. I gotta dig it out and read it in full this time.
I do agree we have been fighting other wars for many years, pretty much since the Civil War and in particular since 1913 when the Fed was given control of our money supply.