Financing Armed Conflict, Volume 1

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America’s major armed conflicts, offering useful case studies for students of military history and spending policy, policymakers, military comptrollers, and officers in training.

Thomas M. Meagher is Adjunct Professor at Armstrong State University, USA.  He spent twenty-five years in the national security field, including time as an active duty Army officer, ten years in financial analysis and investor relations positions in the defense industry, and another decade as an award-winning Wall Street equity research analyst following publicly traded defense and government services contractors. He is currently researching and writing a complementary two part volume on resourcing European and Asian Military Interventions from the War of the Spanish Succession to World War Two.