sci.research.careers

morrisjcroy@ wrote:
>> Otherwise, the only "good war" in recent decades was the US kicking Saddam
>> out of Kuwait. The rest were bad wars. WWII is often called the "good war"
>> but I'd have rather that it just didn't happen. WWI was something else,
>> and it shouldn't have happened, either.
>>
>> Regarding the rest of the article, I think it overlooks a viewpoint I
>> usually come back to: who is making money off this? who is paying for it?
>
> It seems like there's always going to be war profiteers masquerading
> behind the guise of "patriotism" to further their aims. This seems to
> have especially exponentially increased with industrialization.
>
> Don't know offhand when warfare become totally industrialized, as we
> know it today. Maybe the Crimean War when the railways and telegraph
> were first used extensively for war purposes?
>
> /wiki/Crimean_war
>

The American Civil War was certainly one of industrial scale and it had its
share of war profiteers who sold dodgy goods to the military.

In the Ken Burns documentary series "The Civil War", which was shown on PBS
a few times, the narrator described how one supplier made and sold footwear
to, I believe, the Union Army. When soldiers complained that it fell apart
after a few hours march, the supplier claimed that the footwear was
designed for use by the cavalry.