One of the biggest ways the Military Recruitment Machine got their enlistment.
Seemingly the whole thing could have not been written better by a Hollywood action movie writer.
You have your evil rogue villian, an evil organization (that resembles Cobra), billions of dollars (if not trillions), a military machine with new tech. A country whose citizenry are very smug, New policies put in place to curb said smug citizenry, a paranoid, Ill informed (and still are), misguided public...
And hasn't this same method been tried before to get the public behind a war? Spanish American War, WW2, Vietnam?