Roody, you forgot that our mobile military with tanks and bombers got its butt kicked by a small poor nation without many tanks or bombers. They transpsorted a lot of stuff by bike especially after we targeted their fuel depos. I hope that some of our military planners are thinking about how to defend the country without cheap fuel.
I doubt it. They're probably thinking about where we can get us some cheap fuel. But I bet military planners have a clearer idea of what the country will be doing for energy over the next few years than civilian policy planners do. We've been involved in a very stirring primary election process, but the candidates, media and public are barely even talking about energy policy. They talk around it--Iraq, Iran, the economy--but they barely talk about energy, the core issue that drives many of the other issues.
BTW, I think Vietnam was probably the last war we'll fight for a long time that isn't about natural resources.