Making profits from war

December 20, 2021 4:39 PM

War is incredibly expensive to conduct, so a war economy is a robust economy. Soldiers need clothes, food, weapons, vehicles, medicine, fuel and all those things that a person needs, a soldier needs in addition to the trappings of war. So big business works overtime and profits for those companies soar.

Making profits from war

How to profit from war?

Producing weapons

Producing war weapons like aircrafts, tanks, ships, helicopters and selling them. This business doesn't actually need any war but in the case of war it boost than ordinary time.

The business of reconstruction.

War gives destruction but later you need to rebuild and this is a good business for countries who won the war and can control the reconstruction by employing contractors and engineers.

To test new weapons

Wars are used to test new weapons to know how good they are working because weapon like bomb can't be tested anyhow.

When you have to understand if your investment in technology is good, the best way is to use them in a war.

Similarly when you have too many weapons and somehow you need to destroy them in a smart way.

Medical.

One of the aims of military medicine is to keep soldiers ready for action. It starts with the health of new recruits, but keeping troops fighting fit also means preventing and controlling diseases that can devastate an army as effectively as any weapon.

Once the fighting begins, the medical service aims to treat and return troops to active service as quickly as possible. The military has had to develop fast, efficient systems for both treating the injured at the front line and transporting the seriously wounded to hospitals away from the war.

As medicine has improved, more soldiers survive their injuries, but those left with life-changing damage, might need a lifetime of treatment and support. In the aftermath of war, medicine has a role to play in rehabilitating the wounded and providing continuing care for those left with chronic physical and mental conditions.

Through this medical team profit from war because they make huge sales.

Entertainment

Thousands of troops away from home, they are tired of just fighting all the time, giving them some entertainment. Movies, games, simple toys, writing material, journals, books will make you a huge profit during war.

Logistical Company

If you can get access to multiple large trucks to carry containers from a port or rail, and then deliver these containers to the smaller bases throughout a country, you will make a lot of profit in war.

In conclusion

Companies would not risk to invest and lose money if there is no possibility to make profit in the end. Most people would usually not invest a lot of money if there is no possibility of a gain. Problem is that governments need supply and those supplies need a lot of money from the private sector; as such the government cannot make it illegal for people to make a profit out of war.

Aggressive war is illegal; but then international law is difficult to apply in many cases; and in most cases a lot of governments don’t want to apply international law to their allies.