Re: A winning strategy?
Many pre industrial wars were restrained by the ability to pay for them
Yes, it's tempting to think of interest rates, bonds and investment as being a modern day phenomenon, but I remember reading that one of the deciding factors behind the (mostly) successful English military escapades of the middle ages was that they were considered a safer bet economically, so it cost them far, far less to borrow money to pay for armies and navies then it did for their various adversaries...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
