Economic warfare is a term used to describe decentralized conflict occurring across a range of different financial systems, commercial trade networks, states and regional boundaries distinguished by the deliberate disruption and/or destruction of the economic well being of one or more combatant states.  
  Economic warfare has traditionally been considered a sub-element of military operations during wartime. In addition, the scope and consideration of economic warfare has been more in line as its use as both a tactic and a weapon, frequently used in threat (such as the threat of sanctions against an aggressive nation).
  
  However, with the globalization of both trade, finance and information, economic warfare is better defined in scope as a theatre of war, with the location being the physical institutions of global finance, trade and commerce.
  
     
     
     
 

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