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Michael T. Klare, the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, is one of the world’s leading experts on resource conflict.  In an interview with Barry Zellen on the Center for Contemporary Conflicts web site www.cccnps.mil Klare stated:

“What strikes me about all this is that we are seeing the emergence of a new world power configuration in which the possession of energy and other key resources is the principal indicator of national strength, rather than the possession of military arsenals, as was the case in the Cold War era and in prior centuries.

Russia, once the defeated has-been of the post-Cold War era, has acquired new prominence because of its abundance of oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium; the United States, the supposed victor of the Cold War, has been found to suffer from significant vulnerabilities because of its deep dependency on imported petroleum.

The more we look into the future, I believe, the more a nation’s relative standing in the world will be determined by such criteria …”

But those resources are all finite no matter where they are located.   As Thomas L. Friedman proposes in his new book “Hot, Flat and crowded” the countries that stay ahead in the green innovations technology race are the ones which will succeed in the new world order.

The United States must make this our number one priory. It is necessary for our nation’s security both economic and military.