Although from an earlier political 'era,' it's a detailed account/model – name by name, organization by organization, corporation by corporation – of a complex operational structure through which Power executes a particularly nasty manifestation of its control system: Its warmaking and war-'toys'-making/selling division in the U.S.

Names of most human players have since changed, but many institutional entities remain, as do the model and the racket. It illustrates the long-term societal manipulation outlined below.

How might we conceive of Power. Briefly, it's a personal capacity usually group mediated, ancient in origin as in the Mystery Schools of ancient Egypt, Greece and probably Babylon. Entities function by way of a thorough understanding of the mentality and social patterns of the masses, and the use of various occult and propaganda (PR) techniques to manipulate others into desired perceptions, beliefs and actions.

In more recent times, it's the ability to set/establish society-level Policy comprising various military, financial, business, political, diplomatic, academic, scientific – and so on – operations), and have said operations carried out, mostly by others – wittingly and not.

Policy is handed down through an elaborate multi-level hierarchy formed and expanded over time, to direct, manipulate, and control societal development — overall and in its (coordinated) parts — while societal features (Power 'constructs' introduced for control) have seemed natural, spontaneous, good, normal, necessary, and so on.