Britain Took Iran's Oil in 1908. America Inherited the System in 1953.
The conflict never ended. How a 125-year extraction architecture became the war Washington cannot end. A forensic biography across eight institutional mechanisms, from the D'Arcy concession of 1901 to the combined US-Israeli strikes on Tehran in February 2026.
Tesla Lost the Empire.
Edison lost the current wars. Tesla lost something larger. How four mechanisms neutralized the inventor who made the electric century possible. A forensic biography across six periods of Tesla's life, from Smiljan in 1856 to the seizure of his papers by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in January 1943, with appendices documenting the same four mechanisms applied to Edwin Armstrong, Robert Goddard, Philo Farnsworth, and Royal Rife.
Everyone Is Watching the War. Nobody Is Watching Who Learned to Live Without Peace.
Spending falls after wars. The instruments stay. How temporary war economies, defense budgets and institutions outlive the wars that created them, without anyone deciding that they should: from Pitt's income tax of 1799 and American payroll withholding to a national emergency renewed every November since 1979, Russia's bonus economy and NATO's five percent target. With an Evidence Map, a case matrix, a chapter on where the model breaks, and dated tests that later editions will score.
The Manifest Archive publishes forensic investigations into power structures, geopolitics, and erased history. Each book collects a cluster of investigations into a single document. New titles added as clusters complete.