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Using warfare as a means to economic growth has to be one of dumbest ideas that humanity has ever conceived.
How would anyone think that we can grow our economy by destroying another economy, or in the case of civil war, our own economy.
Wars might increase weapons sales but at what cost? Won't it be easier to just pay people dig holes and then pay others to fill the same holes?
Heck, if you think there is nothing left to support economic growth, just take a look at all the research proposals coming out and the list of unsolved scientific problems.
In any case, warfare is staged for purely different reasons other than purely economic growth. My hunch is HUMAN GREED. Just take a look at how much land is currently unoccupied, yet a battle ensues over some very specific piece of land. Leading to the question, won't it be easier to just develop some unoccupied piece of land instead of fighting over some one specific set of coordinates?