uch opportunity to increase their control on the productive sector, proving that indeed, war is the health of the state. Wars have powerful and mostly negative economic effects, arising from loss of production capacity, movement of manpower, reduced foreign exchange earnings and subsequently imports. The United States Civil War Center gave a statistical summary of America's major Wars (see table 2).
             The cost of disasters has been said to be very expensive. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reported that damage from hurricanes over the past ten years has been more frequent and costly to American taxpayers than any similar period in recent history. According to FEMA data, a total of 32 Presidential major disasters were declared from 1988 through 1997 for damage from Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes affecting 17 states on the United States mainland, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, and American Samoa and Hawaii in the Pacific. The cost to the nation for these disasters currently stands
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