Petroleum and Security: The Limitations of Military Power in the Persian Gulf,

Abstract

Though the new sensitivity to energy problems led to a veritable deluge of articles and books addressing the general foreign policy implications for the United States, the specific matter of defense policy received little more than intermittent attention. This article is an attempt to help fill the void by probing some of the relevant defense policy considerations that policymakers will have to confront. Because of the exigencies of time and space, the comments below have been restricted to the main oil producing area, the Persian Gulf, and the general question of American military intervention therein. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA046876

Entities

People

  • Bard E. O'neill

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Commerce
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Diego Garcia
  • Economic Systems
  • Governments
  • Indian Ocean
  • Insurgency
  • Middle East
  • National Security
  • Persian Gulf
  • Political Systems
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Students
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space