Ensuring America's Freedom of Movement: A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence

In 2006, The Center for Naval Analysis? or CNA brought together 11 recently retired three and four-star generals and admirals to form a Military Advisory Board or MAB, with the goal of examining the national security implications of climate change. Over the last five years, the CNA MAB has published three reports on the nexus of energy, climate, and national security. In this report, the MAB focuses on the national security implications associated with shifting the U.S. transportation sector from dependence on oil to alternative fuels.

The report spells out how discussions of energy are discussions of national security. One directly affects the other and there are deep connections between energy, the economy, climate change? and security. This report deals specifically with the U.S.'s heavy reliance on oil, especially imported oil and it calls for immediate and aggressive actions to move the U.S. transportation sector away from oil and toward alternative, domestically produced sources of energy, including biofuels, in order to improve our national security posture.

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