In 1993, the U.S. Army War College published a report that should have shattered illusions: Strategic Minerals in the New World Order by Kent Hughes Butts. On its surface, it was an academic study of mineral dependence. But read between the lines and it becomes something else entirely — a confession.
The report revealed that the United States was already naked without foreign resources. America’s ability to project power, wage war, and maintain economic dominance rests on a fragile foundation: minerals it does not own, buried in lands it cannot control. And at the heart of this hidden war lies silver.
The New World Order and Resource Vulnerability
The phrase “New World Order” is often dismissed as conspiratorial, but here it is used directly by the U.S. military to describe the post–Cold War system of multipolar competition. With the Soviet Union gone, the world was fractured into rival blocs — Japan and the Pacific Rim, the European Community, and the United States — each hungry for survival, each desperate for resources.
The War College admitted bluntly:
“U.S. vulnerability to a loss of access to these important mineral supplies is more pronounced now than at any time since World War II.” (Foreword, p. iii)
Strategic minerals were no longer just commodities. They were lifelines. And without them, America’s empire would collapse.
U.S. Strategy: Control Without Ownership
How does an empire without minerals maintain supremacy? By pressure, by stockpiling, and by deception.
- Political leverage – The U.S. uses allies and client states as resource providers, applying economic and military pressure to keep supplies flowing.
- Stockpiles – The National Defense Stockpile was built as a wartime buffer, holding billions in reserves of critical metals. Yet in the 1990s, Congress authorized its sell-off, leaving the country dangerously exposed.
- Secrecy – Perhaps the most important pillar. The American public must never be told how scarce the nation’s resource position really is.
“The United States is virtually 100 percent dependent upon foreign suppliers for the four most important non-fuel mineral resources.” (Summary, p. v)
Silver is the ghost in this story — not mentioned in the core “four” but fitting every criterion of a strategic mineral. By the early 1990s, Washington had already drained most of its immense silver hoard. By early 2000s, the strategic stockpile was completely gone. What remained was only leverage over allies, and the ability to mask the truth of silver scarcity in the market.
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Why Silver Is the Most Dangerous Metal
Unlike chromium or cobalt, silver carries a unique threat: it is both industrial and monetary.
- Industrial role: indispensable in electronics, solar panels, medical applications, and weapons systems.
- Monetary role: historically money itself, still hoarded as real value in times of crisis.
If the public ever realized the U.S. had run out — and that industry cannot function without it — the consequences would be immediate. Investors would hoard physical silver, industrial users would panic, and foreign suppliers would hold Washington hostage.
“Without sufficient stockpiles… the United States is vulnerable to a shortfall in munitions and armaments in time of surge capacity.” (Key Judgments, p. xii)
Swap “munitions” for “electronics and energy systems,” and silver is exposed as the ultimate Achilles’ heel.
Market Rigging as National Security
The War College did not use the word “rigging,” but the logic is inescapable. If scarcity were revealed to the public, hoarding would destroy the system. The only way to keep the illusion alive is to suppress prices, disguise deficits, and keep silver flowing at paper values divorced from reality.
“The correlation between the geography of resources and national power attains popular appreciation only in times of crisis… In reality, the national security of the United States is inextricably linked to the production and transport of industrial resources found in foreign countries.” (Introduction, p. 3)
In other words, the scheme works only as long as the people remain ignorant.
The SilverWars Conclusion
The 1993 Strategic Minerals report was not just a study — it was a blueprint for deception. The U.S. government knew then, as it knows now, that silver is too critical to expose. As both money and machine, silver’s scarcity is the empire’s most fragile secret.
That is why the silver market has been rigged for decades. Not for profit alone, but for survival. Because once investors awaken, once physical silver is pried from the paper cage, the New World Order’s grip on resources crumbles.
And that is why stacking is not just investing. It is resistance.
