Oil Shockwave

Oil Shockwave

Washington decision makers are war gaming global guerrilla disruption
scenarios. This type of gaming is just the tip of the iceberg…

WP
. The United States would be all but powerless to protect the American
economy in the face of a catastrophic disruption of oil markets,
high-level participants in a war game concluded yesterday… The
exercise began with ethnic unrest in Nigeria, leading to the collapse
of the oil industry in that west African nation. Then al Qaeda launched
crippling attacks on key energy facilities in Valdez, Alaska, and Saudi
Arabia. But the war game's participants — including former CIA
director R. James Woolsey, former Marine Corps commandant Gen. P.X.
Kelley and former EPA administrator Carol Browner, soon realized the U.S. government had few options in the short term to prevent an economic crash in this country and worldwide
.

[John Robb's Weblog]

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