Money Is Not A Weapons System: Inflation, Economic Distortion, and Counterinsurgency Failure

• In Event: New Directions in the Political Economy of International Conflict

Brief Overview

Using a qualitative case study of the Vietnam War, this paper explores the effect of counterinsurgent-generated inflation and economic distortion on outcomes. Paper for the panel “New Directions in the Political Economy of International Conflict"

Authors

• Jonathan D Askonas, Catholic University of America

• Barbara Elias, Bowdoin College