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Offers an assessment of the security implications for Asia of energy resource scarcity. This paper explores the danger that expanding reliance on nuclear energy, as an alternative to diminishing and polluting fossil fuels, could pose a proliferation risk and possibly even lead to nuclear war.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Origins, Causes and Composition 2. Ideology 3. Objectives and Strategy 4. Organisation, Targeting, Operational Art and Tactics 5. The Insurgency's Internal and External Problems 6. Conclusion
About the author
Ahmed S. Hashim is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic Research Department of the United States Naval War College. He has published extensively on Iraq and irregular warfare, as well as on wider Middle Eastern strategic issues. His publications include
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell and Hurst, 2006). Hashim has deployed to Iraq with the US Army as a political adviser on three occasions, where he focused on studying the Iraqi insurgency and providing strategic and operational input to the Coalition's counter-insurgency campaign plan. His book
God, Greed, and Guns: Violence and War in Iraqi State-Formation and Nation-Building will be published in 2009.
Summary
Offers an assessment of the security implications for Asia of energy resource scarcity. This paper explores the danger that expanding reliance on nuclear energy, as an alternative to diminishing and polluting fossil fuels, could pose a proliferation risk and possibly even lead to nuclear war.
