What Commodities Become Valuable in Wartime?
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at
8:46 pm
mameha asked:
I am interested to know what kind of items become valuable during a war. I can imagine it is food, followed by fabrics. Maybe weapons.
I am interested to know what kind of items become valuable during a war. I can imagine it is food, followed by fabrics. Maybe weapons.
Can any historians shed some light on this?
Tagged with: Commodities • Fabrics • Historians
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1 priority during extended warfare;
Manpower.
Commodities used by the military as well as the civilian home front become more valuable during wartilme.
Oil/fuel-fuel, lubricants
metals- military weapons, vehicles and ammunition
civilian- cars, building, utensils, tools, civilian manufacturing
cloth- military uniforms
civilian clothes
food- obvious
rubber-military and civilian tires
On just the civilian side: food, weapons, ammo, and things like cigarettes and medications because people are addicted to or “need” these things, so they have a high trade value.
Are you talking about the home front or the war zone?
I would go with energy… like oil.
In today’s economy, everything runs on it. You have to ship weapons to the war zone, fuel tanks and trucks, and fly planes. All of that runs on oil. No oil, no war.