Borfoff, Jason and O’Sullivan, Meghan L.
The return of the energy weapon: An old tool creating new dangers - Foreign Affairs - 104(6), Nov-Dec, 2025: p.56-71
Throughout much of the modern era, limiting or disrupting the flow of energy was a highly effective tool of global power. In 1923, Admiral Reginald Bacon of the Royal Navy declared that the United Kingdom’s oil blockade of Germany in World War I was the powerful economic weapon to which “the ultimate collapse of that nation and her armies was mainly due.” A generation later, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin attributed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany to the Red Army’s success in denying Hitler access to oilfields in the Caucasus.-Reproduced
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/return-energy-weapon-bordoff-osullivan
The return of the energy weapon: An old tool creating new dangers - Foreign Affairs - 104(6), Nov-Dec, 2025: p.56-71
Throughout much of the modern era, limiting or disrupting the flow of energy was a highly effective tool of global power. In 1923, Admiral Reginald Bacon of the Royal Navy declared that the United Kingdom’s oil blockade of Germany in World War I was the powerful economic weapon to which “the ultimate collapse of that nation and her armies was mainly due.” A generation later, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin attributed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany to the Red Army’s success in denying Hitler access to oilfields in the Caucasus.-Reproduced
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/return-energy-weapon-bordoff-osullivan