Supply Exploitations

Michael Taillard

Chapter 11 in Economics and Modern Warfare, 2012, pp 89-96 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the primary shortcomings of supply manipulation and many strategies of trade manipulation is that any time an artificial shortage is created either through economic combat strategies, legal prohibitions, price requirements (such as minimum wages laws), and other such concerns, a black market will be created to meet the demand. If a blockade or other limitation is put into place where traditional methods of transacting sales are no longer a viable option, there will always certainly be those willing to risk alternate means to profit from the circumstances. Having the knowledge that black-market trading is the unavoidable result of many forms of economic manipulation allows one to anticipate and appropriately act in a manner that exploits this inevitability to the further detriment of enemy forces. Once one understands that supplies cannot, in most circumstances, simply be stopped, the opportunity to leverage the way in which these supplies enter the region becomes a possibility with very powerful potential.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137282255_13

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