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  • Companies That Made Money By Wars A List

    I have posted two posts on the subject of Companies making money of war and in some cases. probably in all cases fuel war.

    Now let me the present Companies who are not only making money but indulge in widespread corruption.

    Be it Bofors , Halliburton.

    Halliburton Logo
    Halliburton Logo

    Here is The List.

    Halliburton.

    Halliburton has become the object of several controversies involving the 2003 Iraq War and the company’s ties to former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney retired from the company during the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign with a severance package worth $36 million.[40] As of 2004, he had received $398,548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while Vice President.[41] Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to 2000 and has received stock options from Halliburton.[42]

    In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion contract for which ‘unusually’ only Halliburton was allowed to bid.[43]

    Bunnatine Greenhouse, a civil servant with 20 years of contracting experience, had complained to Army officials on numerous occasions that Halliburton had been unlawfully receiving special treatment for work in Iraq, Kuwait and the Balkans. Criminal investigations were opened by the U.S. Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Pentagon’s inspector general.

    In one of Greenhouse’s claims, she said that military auditors caught Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon for fuel deliveries into Iraq. She also complained that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld‘s office took control of every aspect of Halliburton’s $7 billion Iraqi oil/infrastructure contract. After her testimony, Greenhouse was demoted for poor performance.[44] Greenhouse’s attorney, Michael Kohn, stated in The New York Times that “she is being demoted because of her strict adherence to procurement requirements and the Army’s preference to sidestep them when it suits their needs.(wiki)

    n early 2005 CIA officials told the Washington Post that at least 50 percent of its estimated $40 billion budget for that year would go to private contractors, an astonishing figure that suggests that concerns raised about outsourcing intelligence have barely registered at the policymaking levels.

    In 2004 the Orlando Sentinel reported on a case that illustrates what can go wrong: Titan employee Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, an Egyptian translator, was arrested for possessing classified information from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

    Critics say that the abuses at Abu Ghraib are another example of how the lines can get blurred when contractors are involved in intelligence work. CACI provided a total of 36 interrogators in Iraq, including up to 10 at Abu Ghraib at any one time, according to the company. Although neither CACI, Titan or their employees have yet been charged with a crime, a leaked Army investigation implicated CACI employee Stephen Stefanowicz in the abuse of prisoners…

    Veritas capital Fund/Dyn Corp.

    At first blush, a private equity fund (and not, say, Exxon-Mobil) being the number 2 profiteer in the Iraq war might sound strange. However, the cleverly run fund has raked in $1.44 billion through its DynCorp subsidiary. The primary service DynCorp has provided to the war efforts is the training of new Iraqi police forces. Often described as a ‘state within a state‘, the sizable company is headed by Dwight M. Williams, former Chief Security Officer of the upstart U.S. Department of Homeland Security. With this and other close ties to defense agencies, Veritas Capital Fund and DynCorp are well-positioned to capitalize on Iraq even more.

    Washington Group International.

    The Washington Group International has parlayed its expertise the repair, restore, and maintenance of high-output oil fields into $931 million in Iraq-related revenue from 2003-2006. The publicly traded 25,000 employee company’s other specialties include the building and maintenance of schools, military bases, and municipal utilities, such as watering systems. Some have complained that Washington Group’s hefty government payoffs have served primarily to raise its trading price on the New York Stock Exchange. One thing is for sure – with oil prices continuing to rise, there will be no shortage of demand for the oil protection services Washington Group International brings to bear.

    Environment Chemical.

    All war zones eventually becomes cluttered with spent ammunition and broken/abandoned weapons, creating a lucrative niche for any company willing to clean it all up. In Iraq, this duty has fallen into the hands of Environmental Chemical. The privately held Burlingame, California company has stockpiled $878 million by the end of fiscal 2006 for munitions disposal, calling upon its “decade of experience planning and conducting UXO removal, investigation, and certification activities.” The company has close ties to several defense agencies and is staffed by graduates of the U.S. Navy’s Explosive Ordinance Schools, as well as the U.S. Army’s Chemical Schools at Anniston.

    Aegis.

    Aegis has done the United Kingdom proud after reeling in a contract to coordinate all of Iraq’sprivate security operations. The Pentagon contract is good for $430 million (incredibly lucrative by any standard) but it has landed Aegis in some hot public relations water. The company’s decision to contribute to Iraq war efforts has lead to a rejected membership application from the International Peace Operations Association. According to The Independent, the influential trade organization does not consider Aegis worthy of inclusion in the “peace and stability industry.” It remains to be seen whether Aegis will continue to be ostracized for participating in the training of Iraqi security forces.

    International American Products.

    Even with all of the blinding innovation and trailblazing advances in military technology, none of it would be very useful without electricity. Running electrical wiring in hostile war zones is dicey business, but International American Products has stuck their neck out and collected a cool $759 million in just 3 years for its efforts. While avoiding enemy fire, their work has become increasingly dangerous – and yet, critically necessary – as Coalition forces struggle rebuild cities, put down warring forces, and stabilize the chaotic nation. Schools, oils wells, and other public infrastructure have relied on IAP for the electricity needed to operate. With Iraq slowly beginning to stabilize, International American Products is holding out hope that its job will eventually become less treacherous.

    http://www.businesspundit.com/the-25-most-vicious-iraq-war-profiteers/2/

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    Who makes Money By Wars? (ramanan50.wordpress.com)

  • Who makes Money By Wars?

    The Rothschilds already possessed a significant fortune before the start of Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and the family had gained preeminence in the bullion trade by this time.[14] From London in 1813 to 1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild was instrumental in almost single-handedly financing the British war effort, organizing the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington‘s armies across Europe, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their continental allies. In 1815 alone, the Rothschild’s provided £9.8 million (in 1815 currency, about £566 million today when using the retail price index, and £6.58 billion when using average earnings) in subsidy loans to Britain’s continental allies.[15]

    Nathan Rothschild
    Nathan Rothschild

    One of the smaller city houses, Vienna. A collection of far larger Viennese palaces known as Palais Rothschild were torn down during the Second World War.

    The brothers helped coordinate Rothschild activities across the continent, and the family developed a network of agents, shippers, and couriers to transport gold across war-torn Europe. The family network was also to provide Nathan Rothschild time and again with political and financial information ahead of his peers, giving him an advantage in the markets and rendering the house of Rothschild still more invaluable to the British government.

    In one instance, the family network enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington’s victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government’s official messengers.[14] Rothschild’s first concern on this occasion was to the potential financial advantage on the market which the knowledge would have given him; he and his courier did not immediately take the news to the government.[14] It was then repeated in later popular accounts, such as that of Morton.[16][17] The basis for the Rothschild’s most famously profitable move was made after the news of British victory had been made public. Nathan Rothschild calculated that the future reduction in government borrowing brought about by the peace would create a bounce in British government bonds after a two year stabilisation, which would finalise the post-war restructuring of the domestic economy.[15][16][17] In what has been described as one of the most audacious moves in financial history, Nathan immediately bought up the government bond market, for what at the time seemed an excessively high price, before waiting two years, then selling the bonds on the crest of short bounce in the market in 1817 for a 40% profit. Given the sheer power of leverage the Rothschild family had at their disposal, this profit was an enormous sum.(wiki)

    Rothschild Logo.
    Rothschild Logo.

    But here’s how some of the other patriotic industrialists and speculators chiselled their way into war profits.

    Take the shoe people.

    They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies.

    Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy.

    But they did well by Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service shoes.

    There were 4,000,000 soldiers.

    Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier.

    My regiment during the war had only one pair to a soldier.

    But when the war was over Uncle Sam has a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over.

    Bought — and paid for. Profits recorded and pocketed.

    There was still lots of leather left.

    So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry.

    But there wasn’t any American cavalry overseas!

    Somebody had to get rid of this leather, however.

    Somebody had to make a profit in it — so we had a lot of McClellan saddles.

    And we probably have those yet.

    Somebody had a lot of mosquito netting.

    They sold your Uncle Sam 20,000,000 mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas.

    Well, not one of these mosquito nets ever got to France!

    Anyhow, these thoughtful manufacturers wanted to make sure that no soldier would be without his mosquito net, so 40,000,000 additional yards of mosquito netting were sold to Uncle Sam.

    Airplane and engine manufacturers felt they, too, should get their just profits out of this war.

    So $1,000,000,000 — count them if you live long enough — was spent by Uncle Sam in building airplane engines that never left the ground!

    Not one plane, or motor, out of the billion dollars worth ordered, ever got into a battle in France.

    Just the same the manufacturers made their little profit of 30, 100, or perhaps 300 per cent.

    Undershirts for soldiers cost 14¢ [cents] to make and uncle Sam paid 30¢ to 40¢ each for them .

    Why, when the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment — knapsacks and the things that go to fill them — crammed warehouses on this side.

    Now they are being scrapped because the regulations have changed the contents.

    But the manufacturers collected their wartime profits on them — and they will do it all over again the next time.

    There were lots of brilliant ideas for profit making during the war.

    One very versatile patriot sold Uncle Sam twelve dozen 48-inch wrenches.

    Oh, they were very nice wrenches.

    The only trouble was that there was only one nut ever made that was large enough for these wrenches.

    That is the one that holds the turbines at Niagara Falls.

    Well, after Uncle Sam had bought them and the manufacturer had pocketed the profit, the wrenches were put on freight cars and shunted all around the United States in an effort to find a use for them.

    When the Armistice was signed it was indeed a sad blow to the wrench manufacturer.

    He was just about to make some nuts to fit the wrenches.

    Then he planned to sell these, too, to your Uncle Sam.

    Still another had the brilliant idea that colonels shouldn’t ride in automobiles, nor should they even ride on horseback.

    Well, some 6,000 buckboards were sold to Uncle Sam for the use of colonels!

    Not one of them was used. But the buckboard manufacturer got his war profit.

    The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. T

    They built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than $3,000,000,000 worth.

    Some of the ships were all right. But $635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn’t float!

    The seams opened up — and they sank. We paid for them, though. And somebody pocketed the profits.

    It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000.

    Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself.

    This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits.

    That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way.

    This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum.

    And it went to a very few.

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  • Companies That Made Money By Wars I

    Who benefits from Wars?

    Do people of either country or the Countries that participate in a War?

    Do the Nations Profit by War?

    No,

    The Business interests.

    Quote.

    “Some people fight for Idealism and Ninety nine out of hundred ae being conned.

    So are the people  back home who cheer for war.

    We are always Right and they are always wrong.

    In Washington and Beijing,London and Moscow.

    People are being conned.

    Those GIs in Vietnam,do you think they die for Life,liberty,and the pursuit of Happiness?

    They die for the DOW Jones Index in Wall Street and always have.

    …

    World War II Pictures.
    World War II Pictures.

    They were in those lands because their Colonel ordered them there,and he was ordered by The War Office and that was ordered by The

    Cabinet to keep the British Control over the Economies.”

    Unquote.-From The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

    The World War, has costed the United States some $52,000,000,000.

    The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent.

    But war-time profits — twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent — the sky is the limit.

    For the du Ponts, the powder people , the average earnings for the period 1910 to 1914 was $6,000,000 a year.

    Their average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fifty-eight million dollars a year

    An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.

    Bethlehem Steel shunted aside the making of rails , girders and bridges to manufacture war materials.

    Their 1910-1914 yearly earnings averaged $6,000,000.

    Their 1914-1918 average was $49,000,000 a year!

    United States Steel.

    The normal earnings during the five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year.

    The average yearly profit for the period 1914-1918 was $240,000,000.

    Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war years 1910-1914 of $10,000,000.

    During the war years 1914-1918 profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year.

    Utah Copper. Average of $5,000,000 per year during the 1910-1914 period.

    Jumped to an average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.

    Central Leather Company were $3,500,000.

    That was approximately $1,167,000 a year.

    In 1916 ,Central Leather returned a profit of $15,000,000, an increase of 1,100 per cent.

    The General Chemical Company averaged a profit for the three years before the war of a little over $800,000 a year.

    Came the war, and the profits jumped to $12,000,000. a leap of 1,400 per cent.

    International Nickel Company showed an increase in profits from a mere average of $4,000,000 a year to $73,000,000 yearly.

    An increase of more than 1,700 per cent.

    American Sugar Refining Company averaged $2,000,000 a year for the three years before the war.

    In 1916 a profit of $6,000,000 was recorded.

    Listen to Senate Document No. 259.

    The Sixty-Fifth Congress, reporting on corporate earnings and government revenues.

    Considering the profits of 122 meat packers, 153 cotton manufacturers, 299 garment makers, 49 steel plants, and 340 coal producers during the war.

    Profits under 25 per cent were exceptional.

    For instance the coal companies made between 100 per cent and 7,856 per cent on their capital stock during the war.

    The Chicago packers doubled and tripled their earnings.

    And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as they were immense. How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not know, because those little secrets never become public — even before a Senate investigatory body.

       to be continued.

    ack:

    http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html#c1

  • Military Strategy Battle Formations Mahabharata War

    Indian epics abound in detail on military strategies ,tactics and details of Battle formations of the army.

    In preparation of the Mahabharata War, Lord Krishna used all the guile of Military Strategies.

    Some of the Strategies.

    Preventing Vidhura from entering the Battle field.

    Sidelining Karna till the tenth day or the death of Bhishma.

    Allotting his Vrushni Sena to Kauravs and Himself standing by the side of the Pandavas.

    Misguiding on the Full Moon Day for the War Ritual of sacrifice.

    Prevention of Karna from using the Nagastra twice;of making him fight only with Arjuna’of preventing him from using the Brahmastra;

    making Karna part with his Punya pala on the Battle field;disarming his Kavacha and Kundala Armor;preveting him from attacking any of the pandavas other than Arjuna.

    Use of Sikandi against Bhishma.

    Announcement of the death of Aswathama by Yudhistira  to kill Drona.

    Hiding of the Sun by His Sudarshana to draw out Jayathratha.

    There were some of the tactics by Lord Krishna used by Lord Krishna in preparation and during the Mahabharata War at Kurukshetra.

    He was also instrumental in forming the Battle plans.

    Indian Epics used advanced Battle Formations in War.

    The List .

    Carving showing the warrior Abhimanyu entering...
    Carving showing the warrior Abhimanyu entering the chakravyuha – Hoysaleswara temple, Halebidu, India (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
    1. Krauncha vyuha (heron formation)
    2. Makara vyuha (crocodile formation)
    3. Kurma vyuha (tortoise or turtle formation)
    4. Trishula vyuha (trident formation)
    5. Chakra vyuha (wheel or discus formation)
    6. Kamala vyuha or Padma vyuha (lotus formation)
    7. Garud vyuha (eagle formation)
    8. Oormi vyuha (ocean formation)
    9. Mandala vyuha (galaxy formation)
    10. Vajra vyuha (diamond or thunderbolt formation)
    11. Shakata vyuha (box or cart formation)
    12. Asura vyuha (demon formation)
    13. Deva vyuha (divine formation)
    14. Soochi vyuha (needle formation)
    15. Sringataka vyuha (horned formation)
    16. Chandrakala vyuha (crescent or curved blade formation)
    17. Mala vyuha (garland formation)

    Each formation was met bya counter formation by the other side.

    For instance , the Sarpa Vyuha was met with Garuda Vyuha(Serpent formation against Eagle.

    heron Bird.
    Heron

    The Heron Formation was usually met with Garuda or eagle Formation’Eagle is a Natural Enemy of Heron.

    Note the Swoop of the Garuda, nullifying and swamping the posture of the Heron.

    Eagle Swoop.
    Eagle Swooping

    There were also courses to get into and out of each formation.

    These were fought while being taught the Dhanur Vidya .

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  • Mahabharata Battle, Rules Of War

    There are adequate references in the Ramayana,Mahabharata and Manusmriti,  the Purana and the Artha Sastra of Kautilya.

    The first requisite is to fight with out anticipation of Victory and performance of the Duty.

    Note the word duty.(Bhagavad Gita ‘Karmaneva..)

    War Rules.
    Rules of War

    War is to be engaged in these cases,

    Appropriation of other’s property,

    Appropriation of Wife

    Raping of women,

    Harassment of the citizens by Unjust King.

    Apart from this the appropriation Cattle is also a ground for War as Cattle represent the Wealth of a King.

    Note the a war was waged by Duryodhana against Drupada by Duryodhana appropriating Drupada’s Cattle.( During the Ajnatha Vasa or Incognito  Living by the Pandavas)

    Before the Declaration of War an Emissary is to be sent for negotiations or Warning.

    Mutually agreed date of engagement is to be fixed for the War.

     The Rules of War

    • Fighting must begin no earlier than sunrise and end exactly at sunset.
    • Multiple warriors may not attack a single warrior.
    • Two warriors may duel, or engage in prolonged personal combat,only if they carry the same weapons and they are on the same mount (no mount, a horse, an elephant, or a chariot).
    • No warrior may kill or injure a warrior who has surrendered.
    • One who surrenders becomes a prisoner of war and will then be subject to the protections of a prisoner of war.
    • No warrior may kill or injure an unarmed warrior.
    • No warrior may kill or injure an unconscious warrior.
    • No warrior may kill or injure a person or animal not taking part in the war.
    • No warrior may kill or injure a warrior whose back is turned away.
    • No warrior may strike an animal not considered a direct threat.
    • The rules specific to each weapon must be followed. For example, it is prohibited to strike below the waist in mace warfare.
    • Warriors may not engage in any ‘unfair’ warfare whatsoever.
    • The lives of women, prisoners of war, and farmers are sacred.
    • Pillaging the land is forbidden.

    Unjust War.

    Sukra in his Nitisara provides this information.

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    ‘He points out that a weak king has always had problems
    in maintaining the State. To cope with this situation, Sukra suggests three possible courses of action: a weak king should enter into a peace treaty (sandhi)
    with his enemy, or resort to Mantra Yuddha (a war of intrigues) or Kutta Yuddha
    (unrighteous war).
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    h e Mantra Yuddha and Kutta Yuddha were adopted to harass the enemy from the rear and all sides so as to devastate his armed forces.
    Kautilya, in his Arthasastra, mentions three types of war for the benei t of the
    State: open war; concealed war; and silent war.
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    Although Kautilya acknowledged

    that open warfare is the most righteous war, he did not speak against waging
    any of these types of war for the consolidation and expansion of the kingdom;
    in Adharma Yudda (unrighteous war) a declaration of war was not possible,
    because it was a secret war.”

    However a Dharma Yuddha or A righteous War is one that is waged for any or all of the reasons mentioned,not withstanding what Sukra says.

    Kautilya’s Views.

    Kautilya in his Artha sastra advocates at time war for personal gain.

    This does not have the sanction of the Sastras.

    Nor do the practices followed by Krishna during the Mahabharata War, on various occasions are approved by the sastras, though Krishna justifies them ‘in the interest of Dhrama’

    Sources:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmayuddha#External_links

    http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/irrc_858_sinha.pdf

     

     

     

     

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