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

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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4/4: 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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I'm John Bat-S-O-P-Cussbaum and Brenda Schaefer of the Naval Postgraduate School.

0:41.0

Their book is operational energy. It's a textbook, it's a teaching book, it's a

0:45.0

work of historical accuracy about energy defining warfare and transitions from one kind

0:51.1

of energy to another, making the battlefield change with it.

0:55.0

Right now the battlefield is not just what blows up and what makes craters.

1:00.0

It's also cyber.

1:02.0

So Brenda, I want to start with you on my understanding of

1:05.8

cyber warfare in the energy pipelines. The colonial pipeline was under attack by a group out of Russia that claims they have no

1:14.9

geopolitical efforts. I'm going to believe that right along with I believe with

1:19.2

Tinker Bell that every time you say I don't believe it very dies somewhere so what we've got here is

1:24.4

the dual use of cyber as a way of attacking our energy infrastructure

1:30.6

did you see people thinking about this?

1:33.7

Brenda, I asked Dan about thinking about the vulnerability of nuclear power plants, but what

1:38.6

about the vulnerability of everything to cyber?

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