[PDF] Americas Energy Needs As Our National Security Policy eBook

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
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ISBN : 9781985181168

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America's energy needs as our national security policy : [hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Resources of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, April 6, 2005].

Author : David Bernell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136731652

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This book analyzes the energy security of the United States – its ability to obtain reliable, affordable, and sufficient supplies of energy while meeting the goals of achieving environmental sustainability and protecting national security. The economic and national security of the United States is largely dependent upon fossil fuels, especially oil. Without significant changes to current practices and patterns of energy production and use, the domestic and global impacts – security, economic, and environmental – are expected to become worse over the coming decades. Growing US and global energy demands need to be met and the anticipated impacts of climate change must be avoided – all at an affordable price, while avoiding conflict with other nations that have similar goals. Bernell and Simon examine the current and prospective landscape of American energy policy, from tax incentives and mandates at the federal and state level to promote wind and solar power, to support for fracking in the oil and natural gas industries, to foreign policies designed to ensure that markets and cooperative agreements — not armies, navies and rival governments — control the supply and price of energy resources. They look at the variety of energy related challenges facing the United States and argue that public policies designed to enhance energy security have at the same time produced greater insecurity in terms of fostering rising (and potentially unmet) energy needs, national security threats, economic vulnerability, and environmental dangers.

Author : Sherri Goodman
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Climatic changes
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This report identifies a series of current risks created by America's energy policies and practices that constitute a serious and urgent threat to national security -- militarily, diplomatically, and economically: 1. U.S. dependence on oil weakens international leverage, undermines foreign policy objectives, and entangles America with unstable or hostile regimes. 2. Inefficient use and overreliance on oil burdens the military, undermines combat effectiveness, and exacts a huge price tag, in dollars and lives. 3. U.S. dependence on fossil fuels undermines economic stability, which is critical to national security. 4. A fragile domestic electricity grid makes our domestic military installations, and their critical infrastructure, unnecessarily vulnerable to incident, whether deliberate or accidental. Looking forward, the report warns that continuing business as usual is perilous because of the converging national security risks of energy demand and climate change: 1. The market for fossil fuels will be shaped by finite supplies and increasing demand. Continuing our heavy reliance on these fuels is a security risk. 2. Regulatory frameworks driven by climate change concerns will increase the costs -- both economic and geopolitical -- of using carbon based fuels. 3. Destabilization driven by ongoing climate change has the potential to add significantly to the mission burden of the U.S. military in fragile regions of the world.

Author : National Defense University (U S )
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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On August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Energy policy
ISBN :

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Highlights of the NAM's national energy policy.

Author : United States Commission on National Security/21st Century
Publisher : Kallisti Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0967851432

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"After our examination of the new strategic environment of the next quarter century (Phase I) and of a strategy to address it (Phase II), this Commission concludes that significant changes must be made in the structures and processes of the U.S. national security apparatus. Our institutional base is in decline and must be rebuilt. Otherwise, the United States risks losing its global influence and critical leadership role. We offer recommendations for organizational change in five key areas: ensuring the security of the American homeland; recapitalizing America's strengths in science and education; redesigning key institutions of the Executive Branch; overhauling the U.S. government's military and civilian personnel systems; and reorganizing Congress's role in national security affairs"--P. xiii.