No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
The principal cause of war is war itself.