The art of war is typically a very dirty and very nasty business, but in consideration that warfare has been with us, since time immemorial, it’s fair to say that it isn’t going to all of a sudden, just disappear. It is one thing when soldiers, conscripted or not, voluntarily or not, fight against the other, in which, they risk both life and limb; whereas, it’s an entirely different thing when those well removed from the dangers of such fighting, see wars as an opportunity to exploit inefficiencies in the logistics of such so as to indulge in their own corrupt minds to extract unmerited profit from that war, often at the expense of not just the nation, but not infrequently, endangering their own soldiers, through shoddy gear, misfiring weapons, inaccurate and unsafe instruments, and spoiled foodstuffs.
Indeed, in any nation in which profit is the main thing, those that are involved in warfare, from the perspective of engaging in contracts, or the fulfilling of those contracts, or in the implementation, so of, have a ripe opportunity to become war profiteers, often because the urgency of situations, makes for excellent opportunities to exploit such, to the advantage of those opportunists.
When we consider who in reality is a traitor to their own nation, one might consider that anybody who changes sides in a war would be marked as a traitor, or those who go about their business in a half-ass way might be considered to have traitorous characteristics. However, a broader definition of a traitor has got to include those that knowingly pass off bad goods as actually being good, and of which when those very goods are armaments that do not function even close to the reliability or the accuracy of what those weapons are supposed to do, thus endangering our soldiers -- this must therefore be seen as to what it actually is, which is profiteering, by the passing on of those fraudulent goods as being the real deal.
The temptation to war profiteer, is too great for certain people and the entities that support such, because they aren’t satisfied with just making a reasonable profit, but recognize that they can make a whole lot more money by deception, in which, the fog of war, often makes it difficult to know as to not only who the guilty party is, but whether there is even a guilty party to begin with. Indeed, the chain of command typically doesn’t know and often doesn’t have the capacity to know what has fully occurred, along with the salient fact that the chain of command just has to basically deal with the situation as it is, and therefore concentrate upon the business of warfare, above all.
Whether or not a war profiteer can be caught is one thing, but for a certainty, those who are caught, should be severely punished, for anything that puts our soldiers in danger because the weapons or the logistics of what is supposed to happen have been compromised by somebody else who has knowingly provided shoddy goods and materials, is somebody that has sold their soul for profiteering, done so at the expense of their nation, and those that nobly fight for such.