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Creating Shortages of Supplies

In: Economics and Modern Warfare

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  • Michael Taillard

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The simplest strategy in “supply manipulation” is to cut off supplies to a geographic location. This is a very broad strategy that will allow a force to manage which supplies, if any, will go into or out of a cordoned area and is typically done through the use of military blockades along roads, trade routes, ports, channels, and air fields. By stopping the source of supplies to a region, one is effectively stopping the ability of people within the region to continue performing routine operations. For a combative force, this means diminishing or even completely eliminating the ability of enemy militants and those associated with them to perform combat-related missions.

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  • Michael Taillard, 2012. "Creating Shortages of Supplies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Economics and Modern Warfare, chapter 1, pages 33-41, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28225-5_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137282255_3
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