Did you know oil and wars have always been linked?
The definitive history of the role of oil in modern warfare has not been written, but a lot can be learned from Robert Zubrin’s new book, Energy Victory.
“For nearly a century,” Zubrin writes, “control of oil has been the decisive
While there are some accurate points there are some inaccurate points as well, especially concerning the WW2 pacific theater. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, was a result of how Japanese trained their pilots, not fuel. Poor air tactics along with an
If disturbances hit Algeria and threaten its oil industry too, the buffer of spare capacity would fall below where it stood in 2008. But demand now is much higher, so spare capacity as a proportion of that demand is much lower (see chart 1). When oil
Presented with this story are petroleum industry concessions maps ** for North Africa that people might want to ponder in between the Western propaganda on Libya. Amidst the full-court press of propaganda presented by the western media and State