economic warfare

disrupting the normal functioning of an enemy's economy in order to undermine its stability

Economic warfare is the term for economic policies followed as a part of military operations during wartime. The purpose of economic warfare is to capture critical economic resources so that the military can operate at full efficiency and/or deprive the enemy forces of those resources so that they cannot fight the war properly. The Russians demonstrated the use of economical warfare in the Battle of Stalingrad by cutting off the Germans' supply lines and starving them to death.
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