A little off topic, but I loved Mailer's Castle in the Forest and look forward to the sequel. Wish I knew where, if at all, the fiction ended.
My take is that he basically asked other Anglos to go with his program one time, after that you were his enemy. He wanted our industrial base eventually, and thought that he would be able to get it through superior tech/firepower that he had a head start in development during the 20-30s...