Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery*, TRANSCEND — Because the world spends roughly 1.7 trillion dollars each year on armaments, it follows that very many people make their living from war. This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as a social, political and economic institution, and also one of the main reasons why war persists, although everyone realizes that it is the cause of much of the suffering of humanity.

**Author: US Army, Office of War Information (OWI) | Source: Department of Defense visual information (DVIC) [1] | Wikimedia Commons
In his farewell address, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned his nation against the excessive power that had been acquired during World War II by the military-industrial complex: