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To meet even the conservative growth rates
posited above, global energy production would need
to rise by 1.3% per year. By the 2030s, demand
would be nearly 50% greater than today. To meet that
demand, even assuming more effective conservation
measures, the world would need to add roughly the
equivalent of Saudi Arabia’s current energy production
every seven years.

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With the cost of precision weapons
expected to decrease and their availability increasing, joint force commanders could find themselves operating
in environments where even small, energy-rich opponents have military forces with advanced technological
capabilities. These could include advanced cyber, robotic, and even anti-space based systems.

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Even though
populations today are much larger and more concentrated,
increasing the opportunities for a new pathogen to spread,
the fact that mankind lives in a richer world with greater
knowledge of the world of microbes, the ability to enact
quarantines, a rapid response capability, and medical
treatment, suggests that authorities could control even the
most dangerous of pathogens.

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Above all, the Chinese are interested in the
strategic and military thinking of the United States. In
the year 2000, the PLA [People's Liberation Army of Chine, blogger's note] had more students in America’s
graduate schools than the U.S. military,

Ur denna rapport (pdf)  från United States Joint Forces Command