{"id":4190,"date":"2015-01-07T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2015-01-07T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T16:35:53","slug":"2015-asymmetric-oil-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"2015: Asymmetric Oil Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca\/2015\/01\/2015-asymmetric-oil-warfare.html\">2015: Asymmetric Oil Warfare<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i>Let&#8217;s consider some examples of potential asymmetric-warfare tactics as they relate to the price of oil.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><b>The world has habituated to the never-ending undeclared war over ownership and access to hydrocarbons. Now we are entering a new phase of\u00a0<i>asymmetric war\u00a0<\/i>being waged not over oil but\u00a0<i>the price of oil.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Many observers see a parallel in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s stated intent to force other exporters to cut their production (if they want to maintain the price of their oil) to the mid-1980s, when a similar oil-pricing war drove prices to lows that helped bankrupt the Soviet Union.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>While there are certainly parallels to that period of superpower confrontation and the Saudis&#8217; use of\u00a0<i>the oil weapon<\/i>, it seems to me that the current era is less a replay of the 1980s than a new chapter in\u00a0<i>asymmetric warfare<\/i>\u00a0that may see a variety of oil-related weapons being deployed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Asymmetric warfare is defined as\u00a0<i>war between belligerents whose relative military power differs significantly, or whose strategy or tactics differ significantly.<\/i>\u00a0Oil exporters come in a variety of sizes and favors, as do major oil producers and consumers (for example, the U.S. is a major producer but it still imports oil from other producers).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Each party with an interest in the price of oil has a different set of weapons, goals, and relative military\/financial power.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015: Asymmetric Oil Warfare Let&#8217;s consider some examples of potential asymmetric-warfare tactics as they relate to the price of oil. The world has habituated to the never-ending undeclared war over ownership and access to hydrocarbons. Now we are entering a new phase of\u00a0asymmetric war\u00a0being waged not over oil but\u00a0the price of oil.\u00a0Many observers see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[2469,1535,1775,2470],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-assymetric-warfare","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-oil-price-collapse","tag-price-of-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}