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West Point Paper -- Part 4/4

"US Dollar Primacy in an Age of Economic Warfare" - This paper was presented at the West Point Symposium on "Order, Counter-Order, Disorder" on February 9, 2023.

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The USD Wrecking Ball: A Geopolitical Lever

It is much cheaper to sow chaos than to defend against it. The US pivot towards guided missiles during the Cold War is a perfect example of this strategy, whereby US strategists “calculated Moscow would need five to ten years and $30 to $50 billion to defend against the three thousand American cruise missiles t…

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Clearance Diving Officer, Royal Canadian Navy. Commanding Officer, FDU(A). Research focus: Economic War, Great Power Competition, CCP foreign interference & Unrestricted Warfare.
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