On a rainy day in winter 2009, 60 experts from the military and financial sectors gather at a secret location to conduct a daring experiment: the simulation of a war. With one distinction: without troops, without warships, and without armies or fighter jets. Instead: with currencies, stocks, bonds, and derivatives. The battlefield is the international financial markets, and the goal of this bloodless warlike experiment is nothing less than the annihilation of a state through the power of money. As distant as this scenario may sound at first, the collapse of the dollar or euro is as close as the daily headlines report. James Rickards, an expert on currency crises with over 35 years of experience on Wall Street, explains why currency wars pose not only economic or monetary threats but also jeopardize the existence of an entire country.