US Navy Surface Warfare Officer and Federal Executive Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, conducting independent research into naval equities impacting current national security situationsSource
After yet another incident in a long series of fuel spills and contamination of local water supplies in Hawaii, the Department of Defense ordered the permanent closure of the Red Hill bulk fuel storage facility in March 2022. The loss of this facility increased the US Navy’s challenge to fuel the fleet in the event of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific. Conversely, a Brown University study exposed the risk of over-reliance on Russian oil and gas to US forces based and operating out of Europe. Before its Ukraine invasion, US forces received nearly 30 percent of its energy needs from Russian...…After yet another incident in a long series of fuel spills and contamination of local water supplies in Hawaii, the Department of Defense ordered the permanent closure of the Red Hill bulk fuel storage facility in March 2022. The loss of this facility increased the US Navy’s challenge to fuel the fleet in the event of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific. Conversely, a Brown University study exposed the risk of over-reliance on Russian oil and gas to US forces based and operating out of Europe. Before its Ukraine invasion, US forces received nearly 30 percent of its energy needs from Russian...WW…
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