The Anti-War Base: A warning from the trenches of a stolen peace

06/02/2026 / By Belle Carter

The book exposes the “Neocon-Neoliberal Axis,” a corrupt alliance between both political parties that serves the interests of war profiteers, including the cult-like MEK, rather than the American people. Stone documents how figures like Giuliani and Clinton were paid to advocate for foreign policy serving a fringe exile group.
Stone provides a technical analysis proving that a war with Iran would be catastrophic, debunking the Pentagon’s “easy war” delusion. He details Iran’s advanced drone capabilities and the vulnerability of billion-dollar aircraft carriers, arguing that modern warfare has rendered traditional U.S. military dominance obsolete.
The book warns of an overlooked geopolitical strategy where Iran could cripple the global economy without directly engaging troops. By selectively mining the Strait of Hormuz and collapsing shipping insurance, Iran could weaponize the world’s energy supply, making any conflict a global economic catastrophe.
Stone argues that Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was an explicitly anti-war mandate from working-class families and veterans. The book details how this mandate was abandoned in favor of neocon advisors and Israeli pressure, characterizing the shift as a “betrayal of the very movement that carried him to victory.”
The book is described as a passionate and urgent document that challenges assumptions about the military-industrial complex. While it lacks formal citations and reads like a rallying cry at times, it is considered essential for daring to ask the critical question of whose interests are truly being served by America’s endless wars.

“The Anti-War Base: Trump’s Unheeded Mandate” is the kind of book you read with a knot in your stomach, because every chapter feels like a prophecy that’s already coming true before your eyes.

Author Roger Stone writes with the urgency of a man who has seen the machinery of war up close—who understands that the path to World War III is paved not with good intentions, but with lobbyist checks, fabricated intelligence and a bipartisan establishment that has become alarmingly comfortable with the idea of American sons and daughters dying for foreign interests.

The bipartisan war machine

The book’s central thesis is devastating in its simplicity: the push for war with Iran is not a product of genuine national security concerns, but rather a carefully orchestrated campaign by what Stone calls the “Neocon-Neoliberal Axis.” This isn’t your grandfather’s Republican-versus-Democrat divide. Stone meticulously documents how both parties have become captives of the same war profiteers.

The chapter on the MEK (Mujahedin-e-Khalq) connection is particularly damning. Stone reveals how this cult-like organization—yes, a literal cult that once killed Americans—has successfully purchased influence across the political spectrum. Rudy Giuliani, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton—the names go on and on. They’ve been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees to advocate for a foreign policy that serves the interests of a fringe exile group, not the American people.

The military overconfidence myth

Where Stone truly shines is in his technical analysis of why a war with Iran would be catastrophic. This isn’t chest-thumping patriotism; it’s cold, hard military reality. The Pentagon’s “easy war” delusion is dismantled piece by piece. Iran’s drone revolution, the vulnerability of aircraft carriers, the nightmare of fighting in mountainous terrain—Stone presents evidence that should terrify anyone who believes the next Middle Eastern conflict will be a repeat of the Gulf War.

One passage stopped me cold: “A single drone can penetrate the defenses of a billion-dollar aircraft carrier. The USS Abraham Lincoln had an Iranian drone fly within its airspace without detection. If a carrier can’t stop one drone, it certainly can’t stop five hundred.”

The energy war no one is talking about

The book’s fourth section on the Strait of Hormuz is worth the price of admission alone. Stone explains, with chilling clarity, how Iran could cripple the global economy without firing a single shot at a soldier. Selective mining, the collapse of shipping insurance, the vulnerability of Qatar’s 500-year natural gas reserves—this is the kind of geopolitical analysis that should be required reading in every high school civics class.

The betrayal of the anti-war base

Perhaps the most painful chapter for me was “Bait and Switch: The Broken Promise of ‘America First.'” Stone reminds us that Donald Trump was elected on an explicitly anti-war platform. His base—working-class families, combat veterans, libertarians—voted for him precisely because they were tired of endless wars. To watch that mandate be abandoned in favor of neocon advisors and Israeli pressure is, as Stone puts it, “a betrayal of the very movement that carried him to victory.”

Final verdict

“The Anti-War Base: Trump’s Unheeded Mandate” is not a comfortable read. It will challenge your assumptions about both political parties, about the military-industrial complex and about the very nature of American power in the 21st century. But it is an essential one.

In an era where the mainstream media serves as a cheerleader for conflict and where censorship has silenced dissenting voices, Stone has produced a document that dares to ask the question no one in Washington wants answered: Whose interests are we really serving when we march to war?

If you care about peace, if you care about the Constitution, if you care about the lives of American soldiers, read this book. Then share it. The anti-war mandate was real. The question is whether we dare to demand it be honored before it’s too late.

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Watch the video below, where John Kiriakou talks to Mike Adams about the domestic political and economic fallout of a U.S. war with Iran.

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