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2/4: Operational Energy 1st Edition by Alan Howard (Author), Daniel Nussbaum (Author), Brenda Shaffer (Author)

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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2/4: Operational Energy 1st Edition 
by  Alan Howard  (Author), Daniel Nussbaum  (Author), Brenda Shaffer  (Author)

https://ww.amazon.com/Operational-Energy-Howard/dp/3110796473/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.LG5l0iv0hI4UL4ptbAh4sw.dZfDVmmLSj4sQ58ZekZqekE3k7UaK-ZNGw2669gz0WY&qid=1729807541&sr=1-1

Energy is an enabler of – and a constraint on – military power. Operational Energy provides military officers with knowledge and skills to plan effectively for the operational energy needs of their forces. Operational energy is the energy used to train, move, and sustain military forces and weapons platforms for military operations.

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0:39.4

Lussbaum and Brenda Schaefer of the Naval Postgraduate School, a new book operational

0:44.8

energy is defining the way the military must think about its future and one way to

0:51.0

do that is to think about its past or case studies where energy is at the center of a struggle.

0:56.0

Brenda, I go to you because I learn from you about the Armenia-Asir-Byjean conflict and the trigger for the last episodes that left Azerbaijan

1:08.4

content that it has regained its territory and Armenia wounded. But it was a missile strike at a particular part of Azerbaijan.

1:17.0

Early on in the conflict that you identified to me is extremely provocative, just one missile near a one part of Azerbaijan.

1:27.2

What was that and why is it important to pay attention to all elements of energy when in war.

1:34.0

Brenda.

1:35.0

Right, thank you, John.

1:37.0

So the Armenian-O-Baijan war during fall 2020,

1:41.0

in which Azerbaijan was able to reassert its sovereignty over its

1:45.8

territories that had been occupied for 30 years had a lot of energy elements.

1:51.3

So one of them was the war broke out on the eve of the

1:55.6

initiation of operations of the southern gas corridor. This is a massive

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