a lot of the engineers and executives I would say majority of these people are decent reasonable human beings. I have dealt with so many that are very radicalized and intense that they are so fiscally conservative yet they want the federal government to spend more on defense in the redistribute funds to pay six figure salaries to themselves for weapons and war systems that are just excess. 

You can read more about the above book here 

https://archive.org/details/howmuchareyoumak00hart/page/n5/mode/2up  

so start with 10k in July of 2001 when Collins was spun off from Rockwell International and by the time they were bought out by UTC that stock would be worth $79K over 17 years

Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.

S&P 500

Total return: 516.67 percent

Annualized return: 9.56 percent

$10,000 2001 stock purchase today: $61,613.06

Basket of Top Five Contractor Stocks

Total return: 872.94 percent

$10,000 2001 stock purchase ($2,000 of each stock) today: $97,294.80

Today was marked as of 2021. 

How the math worked https://www.dividendchannel.com/drip-returns-calculator/ 

https://theintercept.com/2021/08/16/afghanistan-war-defense-stocks/ 

 I know this environment very well I grew up as one of the Rich Kids of Rockwell so that was interesting they are the largest employer in the area a real wealth of stem and intellectual growth they probably made more millionaires in Cedar Rapids than any other employer from the realm of the number of employees that work there but also the boomers that had huge stock options over the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

I've met a number of collins engineers that just go to Planned Parenthood and harass and intimidate women there in their free time they will engage in state sanctioned murder for profit for a day job.  but feel they know better for what a woman can do in her personal life.  Most of the men that engage in this are also single by the way ladies If you're looking for a good man :-)