Dangerous Oil

There has been much debate recently within the defense community between adherents of the so-called


Many of the factors which could cause instability around the world are fairly well known. The United Nations has been warning for many years about the probability of significant population expansion in the areas of the globe least able to sustain such increases. Concurrent with this population flux is the danger that billions of people may not have sufficient drinking water within a decade, and both of these problems are compounded by the possibility that the world may be near the limit of its ability to produce sufficient food for everyone. Add in the highly contentious and debatable factor of global warming and the future looks anything but stable.

There is another potential trouble-factor on the horizon, however, whose occurrence could result not in a low level insurgency as envisioned in an