"Black Gold" and Global Armed Conflicts

Aug 26, 2019 | Christina Kitova
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• By August 1942 the Germans soon faced a conundrum: mass their forces and turn south to capture the oil, or continue driving west to capture Stalingrad.
• Japan lacked domestic oil production. Japanese leaders felt backed into a corner.
• Oil will continue to dominate the world and future conflicts can be predicted based on the same desire for global dominance and control of this commodity-- just like in the last century.