Amoryl Lovins , L. Hunter, "Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (Hardcover)"
Publisher: Brick House Pub Co | 1982 | ISBN 093179028X | PDF | 400 pages | 10.5 MB
The professional fraternity of those who deal regularly with questions of national security has its own language, its own rituals, its own stylized forms of well-worn argument. Most strategic analysts, for example, obligingly sort themselves out into two herds—those who advocate only an “assured destruction” mission for our strategic forces and those who support a “counterforce” capability. They then find some specific piece of new hardware about which they can conveniently disagree, and they do, interminably—ringing all the changes on a ritualized dispute while the public looks on with a mixture of boredom, fear, and confusion. Look out, fraternity, here come Hunter and Amory Lovins. The authors of this fascinating, disturbing, and—in its own way—hopeful book disrupt this well-worn debate in a number of healthy ways. They insist on taking seriously one of our society’s most troubling vulnerabilities—the extremely fragile nature of the way it acquires, transmits, and energy.