AZ: "there is absolutely no science in government at the moment, only opinion, and no technology will change the situation for as long as those people at the top are formed by the non-sapient environment - exactly what we have now"
It is said that war is politics by other means. Economics is politics. War is economic policy. War is the business of empire, and war is good business.
Therefore, war is politics is economics is the business of the imperial corporate-state.