Full Description
This book demonstrates how economic tools have been used throughout history to accomplish goals of military conflict, how they can be used more effectively than traditional means of warfare in the modern era, and how we can derive a better understanding of economic strategy applicable not just to the military but also to market competition. This new edition includes a thorough updating of chapters on advances in our understanding of economic warfare and more recent examples, such as ISIS's reliance on obtaining control over oil production facilities, North Korea's nuclear program, and China's emphasis on scientific research and technological innovation. This edition also features an entirely new chapter on the commercialization of the conflict over the region of Kashmir.
Contents
1. A Critique on Current Methods.- 2. Altering Distribution of Supplies.- 3. Altering Distribution of Capital Assets.- 4. Altering Distribution of Human Assets.- 5. Physical Confrontation.- 6. Systempunkt Targets.- 7. Limitations and Failures of Supply Manipulation.- 8. Suggestions for Future Research on Supply Manipulation.- 9. Preliminary Concept: Terms of Trade.- 10. Preclusive Purchasing.- 11. Resource Appropriation.- 12. Supply Exploitations.- 13. Tactical Hiring.- 14. Tactical Pricing.- 15. Trade Agreements.- 16. Currency Manipulation.- 17. Counterfeiting.- 18. Limitations and Failures of Trade Manipulation.- 19. Suggestions for Future Research on Trade Manipulation.- 20. Economic Intelligence.- 21. Labor Exploitations.- 22. Expropriating Peoples.- 23. Equity and Debt Engineering.- 24. Equilibrium Redirection.- 25. Decision Management Modeling.- 26. Resource-Based View of Conflict.- 27. Profits of the Game.- 28. Limitations and Problems with Market Manipulation.- 29. Suggestions for Future Research on Market Manipulation.
