The War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007[1] was introduced first on April 25, 2007, but was never enacted into law. [2]
Oil Companies
Since the United States' invasion of Iraq, the largest oil companies have increased their profits to $132 billion dollars in revenue. Former Vice president Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, amassed a total of $2.5 billion by financing the construction of military bases and infrastructure rebuilding. [3]
Weapons Manufacturing
editWith ease of massive manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution, the foundations for creating weapons on a massive scale was introduced. The introduction of interchangeable parts and pre-manufactured models was popularized to assemble muskets, making it easier for unskilled workers to produce larger numbers of weapons at a much lower cost. Before the industrial revolution, gun-making was considered a skilled craft as most weapons were handmade, thus making it hard to repair and replace parts. [4]
In 1798, American inventor Eli Whitney received a government contract to manufacture 10,000 muskets in less than two years. After failing to produce a single musket, he was called to Washington to defend his expenditure of the treasury funds before a committee that included both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Believing to demonstrate the ingenuity of interchangeable parts, Whitney earned widespread support and has been incorrectly credited with inventing the idea of interchangeable parts. However Merritt Roe Smith concluded that this demonstration was staged by marking the parts beforehand, so they were not as interchangeable as he made them seem. [5] Eventually Whitney was able to accomplish his goal of 10,000 muskets with interchangeable parts at a relatively low cost in the next 8 years, and later produced more than 15,000 in the following 4 years.[4]
- Additive Manufacturing and its Implications for Military Ethics[6]
- Worker leadership: America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial competitiveness[7]
- Arms production in the Third World[8]
- Atomic Age
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- ^ "House Report 110-353". United States Government Publishing Office. September 27, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
- ^ “S. 119 — 110th Congress: War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007.” www.GovTrack.us. 2007. February 14, 2017 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s119
- ^ Dolack, Pete. "War profiteering is big business." Synthesis/Regeneration, Winter 2007, p. 34+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=uarizona_main&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA176779473&it=r&asid=c9d049cc122e176279faa8a47e192f48. Accessed 14 Feb. 2017.
- ^ a b Staff, History.com (2010). "Interchangeable Parts". History. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ Baida, Peter. "Eli Whitney's Other Talent". American Heritage. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ Mattox, John Mark (7/3/2013). "Additive Manufacturing and its Implications for Military Ethics". Journal of Military Ethics. 12 (3): 225–234. doi:10.1080/15027570.2013.847534. S2CID 144120757.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|year=(help)CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ Stahl, Fred;Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel (2013). Worker leadership: America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial competitiveness. The MIT Press. ISBN 9781299939066.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Brzoska, Michael; Ohlson, Thomas (1986). Arms production in the Third World. London ; Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0850663415.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Arnold, Lorna (1979). The atomic bomb. London ; Boston : Butterworths. ISBN 0408713119.
- ^ Titus, A. Costandina (2001). Bombs in the backyard : atomic testing and American politics. Reno : University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0874173701.
- ^ INFACT (Firm) (1990). Bringing GE to light : how General Electric shapes nuclear weapons policies for profits. Philadelphia : New Society Publishers. ISBN 0865711712.
- ^ Caldicott, Helen (2004). The new nuclear danger : George W. Bush's military-industrial complex. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton. ISBN 1565848780.