Resource Security Watch No. 8
Yemen's cholera outbreak rages on;
Migration and the Middle East water shortage;
America eyes Europe's LNG market;
Water and American energy independence;
China's controversial "Great Green Wall"
Yemen's cholera outbreak rages on;
Migration and the Middle East water shortage;
America eyes Europe's LNG market;
Water and American energy independence;
China's controversial "Great Green Wall"
America's energy transformation over the past decade has prompted the Trump administration to call for an age of American energy dominance.
This book shares the untold story of how Democratic President Harry Truman and Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked together in the perilous late 1940s to produce a revolutionary new U.S. foreign policy that has served America well ever since – with the United States seizing global leadership to protect its friends, confront its enemies, and promote freedom.
The world has long known of the existence of a virtual ocean of underground oil and gas deposits imprisoned in “tight,” low-permeable shale rock formations. Until recently, however, it was convinced there was no profitable extract them.
The problem. The U.S. government is demonstrably unable to protect the classified information on which much of national security is based. In the Manning and Snowden era when possibly two million classified documents are made public and the press is awarded prizes for publishing much of the stolen material, it is fair to ask whether the government is capable of protecting the information required for effective intelligence, military, and diplomatic results. As internet‐age leakers are outpacing spies as insider threats, it would appear that the paradigm to protect classified information is fundamentally broken, and it is time to consider what it might take to fix it. Or if the paradigm is truly beyond repair, what should replace it?