Blood and Treasure
Subtitle: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare
Contributors: Rosen, Stephen P.; Bates, Robert; Toft, Monica
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: Among the most important choices made by groups fighting a civil war--governments and rebels alike--is how to allocate available military and pecuniary resources across the contested areas of a conflict-ridden territory. Combatants use military force to coerce and money to persuade and co-opt. A vast body of literature in political science and security studies examines how and where combatants in civil wars apply violence. Scholars, however, have devoted less attention to combatants' use of material inducements to attain their objectives.
Notes: Keywords: Afghanistan War, Civil Wars, Counterinsurgency, Iraq War, Irregular Warfare, Philippine-American War.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013