War conditions render accumulated money useless and force starvation survival tactics

Evidence

After all the trouble and risk we undertook to get the money, it became useless. We would have been less hungry if we had stayed at the village instead of walking the miles to Mattru Jong and back. I wanted to blame someone for this particular predicament, but there was no one to be blamed. We had made a logical decision and it had come to this. It was a typical aspect of being in the war. Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to. That night we were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept. It was the only way to get through the night. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 96

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 96
• XREF: connects to: Prolonged wartime quiet feels like hunger presaging violence, not true peace — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 228; The warlord economy made literacy worthless as a route to success; Arms races inevitably stall as weapon costs neutralize reproductive benefits — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 432 (+2 more)

Library Connections

• Prolonged wartime quiet feels like hunger presaging violence, not true peace #complicates (0.75) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 228

Broader Connections

• Clumped sparse resources make territorial fighting pay off reproductively #corroborates (0.70)