Robert Pape

You know, they beat France in six weeks, and then they occupied it for four years.

Notice that there wasn't an uprising by the French population.

Why not?

It's because Germany held all the keys to the economic flows inside of occupied France, including the food.

You wanted food and ration cards?

Guess what you had to do?

Go to the factories that were working for the Germans.

don't want to go work for the germans no problem you just don't get any food okay so there's we have books on this so i'm not just when i'm talking about studying economic pressure i'm not doing the hand wavy stuff patrick i'm going through case after case

And the truth is we just don't have this case of economic pressure crushing the resistance, crushing the regime without military force.

So what you see is economic pressure is a precursor to conquest.

If you want to use military force to conquer territory, perfect sense to weaken the enemy economically here.

The idea, though, that you weaken them economically and that alone, this is President Trump, again, up against the weight of history of 100 years.

This isn't up against just simply a matter of, well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

With regime change bombing, something, again, Bombing to Win is all about this.

This is the book on regime change bombing.

It shows since World War II, bombing alone has never toppled a regime.

My work on economic sanctions, economic blockades, multiple academic articles about this is showing side by side since World War I, economic pressure alone, meaning without follow-up ground conquest, is not toppling a regime.

Now, if you want to get them to negotiate on a price of trade here or release a few hostages,

You can have economic pressure do that.

So minor goals can be achieved.