Governments invest heavily in Intelligence capabilities to maximize effects of the Warfighter (the fighting Force).

So do Corporate entities. That is another aspect of research you can engage in - PRIVATE sector Intelligence capabilities.

But to understand how Intelligence rose to become the primary mechanism of global war and corporate power leverage, we have to discuss World history in relationship to the development new technologies.

This will ultimately help us fully comprehend how an OG “Outsider” could effectively deal a death blow to powerful foreign entities who shackled the Republic so long ago..

The advent of the Camera...

Communism.. an idea so impossible to implement that the only way to do it was at extreme leverage point.

The biggest threat of being a leverage holder doesn’t come from the person you’re trying to leverage for control - you have something on them they don’t want to be made public because it will mean ruin, so they’re less inclined to make overt moves..

The biggest threat to the leverage holder are the other people who want the leverage for themselves.

This is how elite power shifts...

Intelligence, propaganda, extortion, coercion, blackmail... Tools of leverage holders.

Blackmail was a gentleman’s game until the camera.

World Wars are iterative to the Steel Cycle... it’s the final backdrop of all economic trade.. Central Banking usually controls this...

WWI - The Romanian Christmas.. or Christmas Truce of 1914 demonstrates just how much the soldiers of those Nations didn’t actually want to butcher each other. They could be leveraged to an extent by propaganda and falsehoods but it the face of such large scale conflict and the horrors they endured, that ability to leverage them en masse waned. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a perfect example of suffering, dissonance, and choice. It was short lived, but so very poi Investors in WWI invested HEAVILY in the development of the Camera and film technique. It was a Military Industrial Complex in and of itself. Research the German UFA company and the rise of public film theaters.

Learning how to get people to FEEL things when they’re sitting next to each other in a dark box... it was unlike any other experience in life at that time, and Communities were spending hours in the theatre - it was a massive Community experience - everybody being synchronized to the same narrative at the same time - wide scale. That had never happened before in history.

Now consider that ^ in addition to the psychological behavior demonstrated by the soldiers during the Christmas Truce of 1914...

How do you MAKE SURE your soldiers do the killing required to win an iterative conflict that doesn’t make sense because of obvious inconsistencies? You need propaganda, you need cameras, video, movies, sound, a way to make sure the War story is “valid” and accessible to the masses. They invested heavily in the development of the camera and film technique for a reason.