How America benefits from wars?

The Taliban now has a significant gift in the form of state-of- the-modern helicopters, attack planes, rifles, machine guns, and Humvees — the most advanced American armament as the Americans have left Afghanistan. This is not a one-time occurrence; whether purposefully or unintentionally, the United States has a past of arming terrorist organizations, criminal groups, and renegade governments.

Long a major component of U.S. foreign policy, armaments sales have long been a source of controversy. Originally starting during the Cold War in the 1970s, the Nixon government developed the Nixon Doctrine-the practice of arming counter-Soviet expansion agents. With nations like Ethiopia, Laos, Cambodia, South Vietnam, and even Iran gaining from billions of dollars’ worth of American weaponry, this was a notable rise in arms sales.
Still, this approach frequently backfired. For example, the significant arms shipments to the Shah during the 1970s finally resulted in the Islamic Revolution in 1979, therefore turning Iran from a U.S. friend into a fierce enemy. Comparably, in Panama, where the U.S. had been a significant military ally for most of the 20th century, the situation became hostile when General Manuel Noriega, a former CIA agent, came to power and led a U.S. invasion whereby American troops faced American weapons.

Weapons shipments to Iraq to oppose Iran carried this trend into the 1980s, only to find themselves in hot dispute with Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait. American tanks and missiles also…