The Five Year Plan.

Five years of the most expensive promotional video in history - for the arms industry.
From the grand opening night of Shock & Awe, through every minute of grisly horrormongering since, all designed to create fear and the need for weapons- which in turn eats up productive capacity, which keep people afraid and insecure and keen to find strong leaders to defend them.

The 'plan'? I lied, there is no plan. Waste and degradation come quite naturally to modern consumerism.