Promoting International Energy Security

Nigeria is an important oil producer, but security shortfalls impede oil production and new investment. Important new finds of oil and natural gas have been reported in the territorial waters of Nigeria and nearby nations. Making the offshore petroleum infrastructure more secure would promote additional oil field investment, leading to greater production. The U.S. Air Force has expertise that could help build local security capabilities.

Johnson has many years of experience in defense planning and analysis at the Department of Defense, NATO headquarters, and in private industry.

James T. Bartis (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a senior policy analyst at RAND.

Duncan Long is an internationally recognized nonfiction and fiction writer of countless books and magazine articles on weapons and warfare. He is a best-selling Paladin author, with more than 20 firearms manuals in print.