I dispute the sentence "War is not a Corporate Venture"..... you are wrong...... do some research....."War is a Corporate Venture"..
read "War is a Racket"..... by General Smedley.....
Old Gimlet Eye's pamphlet should be right up there with "Common Sense" but that will never be the case.
Sure our economic concerns should have a bearing on our decision to go to war but for what its worth only in the context that another is threatening our existential being not as a means to raise quarterly profits.
In the second case perhaps Id agree if the CEO was in the next fighting hole. If its worth the sacrifice of Mr and Mrs Smiths only son/daughter than its worth the CEO eating an IED.