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The information on WW2 showed that modern technology, imperialism, and industrialization, long praised in the name of "progress," possessed an equally awesome destructive potential. Since 9/11, wars have spawned economic instability that led to the recession. Why?

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War is a business. While governments and terrorists wage war, the supplies needed for war, and the labor are part of a large business. Weapons, people, transportation and technology are all provided for war by businesses. Unfortunately, those businesses have changed from prior decades and centuries with the advancements of technology and the changes in global access to supplies and needs. Technology has provided better weapons, but at a higher cost. Those costs have trickled down to the population and the companies that supply armies. So the companies have downsized or merged until there are limited companies that ...

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