User:Hannaheaton/sandbox

I will be editing War Profiteering.

I would like to add the following to Civilian contractors:

Private military contractors are businesses that supply weapons and training to the military, and also handle logistics and base management. While private military contractors may seem similar to mercenaries, they differences is that mercenaries operate illegally.

I would like to add the following sentence to the "Commodity Dealers" section:

When it comes to supply and demand in terms of economics, profit is the most important end. During war time, "war-stuff" is in high demand, and demands must be met.

I too found a few more sources on the subject.


 * The first discusses the ways in which black market operators, businesspeople, and profiteers benefit from war.


 * I believe this source will help to maintain a neutral tone in discussing the subject matter. It discusses the practicality of war profiteering, mostly through an economic political scope.


 * This source compares "centralized warfare of the Cold War era" to "the privatization of force". It does not focus on war profiteering in the United States, and could therefore provide insight on the subject objectively, and from a technical perspective.

I will add a little bit of a legal perspective on war profiteering, such as War Profiteering Prohibition Act of 1985, under the section labeled "in the united states".

This is my edit