Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by wabigoon
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.


wars over natural resources is where it often begins. people need to have access to resources, ultimately to feed their own families.

sometimes there's a profit motive, and other times a pure power/dictatorial motive.

all i know is what i was told in the 1st cavalry division and it was more than half propaganda.

but people needs to have jobs. building tanks, guns, bullets, or whatever. a job is a job.