"WAR is a racket. It always has been.The United States is dropping bombs faster than the military industrial complex can manufacture them. The spike in demand for weapons of war since the attacks in Paris have sent stock prices and arms sales through the roof.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
-Two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
According to US officials, arms manufacturers have added shifts and hired workers, but they warn that this may not be enough to keep up with the world's demand for weapons of mass destruction.
As the US sends tens of thousands of warheads to Saudi Arabia so they can bomb schools and hospitals in Yemen, they are placing a strain on domestic production. Since the terror attacks in Paris, American forces have increased their efforts and have begun dropping 453 bombs a day in Iraq and Syria.
Comment: Who benefits? Defense industry stocks soar after the Paris terror attacks