The Grand Design

In The Grand Design, G. Edward Griffin exposes what he identifies as a calculated, consistent force driving American foreign policy since the end of World War II: a deliberate march toward the surrender of national sovereignty. Griffin argues that a self-proclaimed "intellectual elite" has operated under the deceptive premise that nuclear war makes victory over Communism impossible, using this fear to justify a policy of "feeding the beast" through economic and technological aid. This "Grand Design" seeks the eventual merger of the United States with socialist and Communist regimes into a single world government, complete with a world currency and an international military monopoly. By analyzing official documents and the rhetoric of high-ranking officials like Robert McNamara, Griffin warns that the American public is being conditioned to accept the total abandonment of their independence in exchange for a manufactured, globalist peace.