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    Why Is War Necessary

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    War can positively impact economic development in several ways. First, military procurement and weapons development played an important role in the industrial revolution by advancing technology. Second, wartime industrial activity stimulates GDP growth in the short term. For example, US GDP grew 7.6% in 1984 during the Cold War arms race. Third, military spending creates jobs, as $1 billion in spending in 2011 created over 11,000 US jobs. However, war also has enormous human and economic costs and should only be considered justifiable in rare circumstances.

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    War can positively impact economic development in several ways. First, military procurement and weapons development played an important role in the industrial revolution by advancing technology. Second, wartime industrial activity stimulates GDP growth in the short term. For example, US GDP grew 7.6% in 1984 during the Cold War arms race. Third, military spending creates jobs, as $1 billion in spending in 2011 created over 11,000 US jobs. However, war also has enormous human and economic costs and should only be considered justifiable in rare circumstances.

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    War can positively impact economic development in several ways. First, military procurement and weapons development played an important role in the industrial revolution by advancing technology. Second, wartime industrial activity stimulates GDP growth in the short term. For example, US GDP grew 7.6% in 1984 during the Cold War arms race. Third, military spending creates jobs, as $1 billion in spending in 2011 created over 11,000 US jobs. However, war also has enormous human and economic costs and should only be considered justifiable in rare circumstances.

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    War can positively impact economic development in several ways. First, military procurement and weapons development played an important role in the industrial revolution by advancing technology. Second, wartime industrial activity stimulates GDP growth in the short term. For example, US GDP grew 7.6% in 1984 during the Cold War arms race. Third, military spending creates jobs, as $1 billion in spending in 2011 created over 11,000 US jobs. However, war also has enormous human and economic costs and should only be considered justifiable in rare circumstances.

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    WHY IS WAR

    NECESSARY
    FOR
    DEVELOPMENT?

    CHARMINE GAIL V.
    ALMOJERA
    BSED 1-4 SOCTUD
    SOCIAL SCIENCE 1185
    It is difficult to overemphasize the importance of te historical role that
    military procurement has played in the process of technology development.
    Knowledge acquired in making weapons was an important source of the
    industrial revolution (Kaempffert 1991, p. 435).
    There are increasing tensions raising questions abot a possible war.
    While most people are worried about the impact on their safety, economists
    are speculating the impact may have on global economies.
    People cannot ignore the profits achieved by the technology and arms
    during war. Aside from ethical debate, the relationship between government
    and industry have a directly proportional effect. Not only does fighting in wars
    benefit certain industries, the period after the conflict resolved presents
    opportunities for construction companies and equipmenty producers. War is
    big vusiness and a Keynesian argument would be that military spending is
    the stimulant countries need to boost their economies in periods of slow
    growth. War causes intense industrial activity and definitely influences GDP.
    There is no doubt that GDP in the short-run grows after a war. According to
    Bhatti, H.A(2015), The Arms Race during the Cold War precipitated a growth
    of 7.6% GDP in 1984 in the U.S. Another way in which wars effects possitive
    impact is employment. It estimated that in 2011, $1 billion of military spending
    alone created 11,200 jobs both directly and indirectly in the U.S.
    According to Kelly (2012), mass mobilization and industrialization made
    the Great War particularly cost.The first World War was notable for the
    dawning horror if military air power. WW1 was costly in terms not just of
    quantity ut also in terms of quality. Great and heroic individuals lives were
    horrily abbreviated.
    The relationship between the war and economic development has been
    controversial in economic histrory. In Krieg und Kapitalismus (1913), Werner
    Sombart argued that in Western Europe war and the preparation for war
    gave rise to the economic institutions of capitalism ( Smith 1985, pp. 29-30).
    In War department, it says that the real business of the war is buying and
    selling. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves
    as spectacle, as a diversion from the real movements of the war. It provides
    raw material to be recorded into History, so that the children may be taught
    History as sequences of violence, battle after battle.
    According to Brandon (2020), some medical, industrial and digital
    products come from war. Plastic surgery originated in WW1. industry in
    weapons generated better guns and bombs where planes were
    revolutuionized to outfit and modulations. And the origin of the internet came
    from a military network that supposed to be used for communication. War has
    drastic social changes like Civil War. And war for development formed an
    new countries. It is also act of force that keeps any negative entity projecting
    too much power.
    Another aspect why war is necessary for development is economics, a
    country can gai money by going to war but at the same time the country may
    spend a lot of money and can cause economic distruction, social disruption
    and extreme violence. For Science and technology, chemistry and medicine
    led to improvements in the internal combustion engine, aircraft design, radio
    and television , advances in antibiotics , medical surgerical techniques or war
    is truly the mother of invention.
    War is an incredibly wasteful and soul-destroying human activity. Most
    wars are not “just wars” t all. It seems that war has been an integral part of
    human experience, has contributed positive aspects to humanity and is
    occasionally justifiable. War has desrupt lives but countries and nation
    improved and developed because of different wars encountered.

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