Blood Money, the Jacobites, and Bankrolling Crime

Dr. Margaret Sankey earned a PhD at Auburn University in European military history, and taught military history, security studies and political science at Minnesota State Moorhead before joining the staff at the U.S. Air Force Air War College as the director of research and electives. Currently, she is Air University’s research coordinator in the Office of Sponsored Programs matching and supporting Air University assets with Air Force research problems. Her publications include Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellion: Preventing and Punishing Insurrection in Early Hanoverian Britain, Women and War in the 21stCentury, and the North American Conference on British Studies Walter D. Love Prize-winning article, co-written with Dr. Daniel Szechi, “Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism, 1715-1745,” in Past and Present. Dr. Sankey is also the author of Blood Money: How Criminals, Militias, Rebels, and Warlords Finance Violence, published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press, and this book is the subject of our conversation today.