war profits
Battlefield financial gains
War profits are gains made from supplying goods or services during wartime, typically by contractors, manufacturers, or speculators.
The term often carries a negative connotation, suggesting exploitation of conflict for financial gain: Companies made enormous war profits selling weapons to both sides.
Those who seek such gains are called war profiteers.
- merchants of deathWeapons industry sellers
- arms manufacturingCreating firearms and munitions
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- conflict mineralsResources financing warfare
- logistics companiesFirms handling transport coordination
public outrage · moral hazard · humanitarian crises · blood money · dirty money · ill-gotten gains · defense contractors · military industrial complex · sanctions evasion · corruption · black market · economic disparity · Halliburton · munitions
- war economicsmobilization, defense contracts, munitions, arms production, arsenals
- windfallsjackpot, windfall, grand prize, found money, big win
war profitswar reparations
Compensation from defeated nation
war damages · economic devastation · war debts · war debt · combat casualties
war profitshumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
charitable giving · development aid · philanthropy · relief work · social enterprise
war, wars, warring, warred, warlike, warrior, warriors, warfare, wartime