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What are your thoughts on the huge private American military manufacturers and contractors?

Huge multi billion dollar corporations that manufacture everything from missiles to tanks, jets, and ammunition, or the contractors that supply private armies and security forces, have significant incentive for their to be continued war. This scares me.

Why are these companies allowed to be privatized? Why is the government not responsible for ensuring that the goal of military contractors and military developers is not profit?

With such big companies how much of our politics do they control, and with the politics the leaders, and with the leaders the policies, and with the policies the globe?
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TexChik · F
America is not a socialist nation .., it was founded on capitalism . The private sector has always been more cost effective when it comes to government contracts
Perhaps, my question isn't really about the debatable cost effectiveness, but rather about the morality of this.