I just finished reading Battle Cry, the novel about the Marines in WW2 fighting on the Pacific against the "Japs".
Is it money, real-estate, minerals? Wars are old as time, and there are a few going on right now.
Call me Gus, and perhaps I ask stupid questions, just the feelings after reading the book.
In WWII, Japan kicked things off in the pacific over access to raw materials.
In Europe, German couldn't pay their debts from WWI, and still wanted the raw materials they were after in WWI.
Wars in the middle east have primary been about two things, access to trade routes, and, in modern days, Oil.
Look hard enough, and all wars have an economic root.
