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Yes.
Remember when Jon Stewart went viral for that time he was chewing into some bureaucrat about the military not being able to pass an audit? Seems like the bureaucrat should be the one interested in making sure that money is well spent.
It seems like it would serve bourgeoisie interests to have a good war machine especially if you intend to use it to do violent extraction. Wanting to profit from corruption and also profit from violent extraction seems removed a contradiction that is currently hightening. Has anyone looked into this? Thank you for your attention on this matter
This don't work like that, of course that well working military machine would be in a long time more profitable for the MIC, but capitalism work in the short time. And it's not like they don't know it, but the failing rate of profit ruthlessly promote grift over real economy and capitalism also makes worst dregs of humanity to the top, so their chief philosophy is "apres mois, le deluge". All this was already pointed out by Marx as one of capitalist contradictions.
Also, USA has been at war for as long as it existed and that grift never failed yet, so why change things now?