6. American Efforts to Avoid Vulnerability

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Ubiquity of Oil 1
5. 1. A Theory of Strategic Anticipation 15
6. 2. Oil and Military Effectiveness 48
7. 3. Qualitative Methods for Testing the Theory 67
8. 4. British Vulnerability and the Conquest of Mesopotamia 80
9. 5. The Oil Strategies of Nazi Germany 92
10. 6. American Efforts to Avoid Vulnerability 115
11. 7. Empirical Tests with Fuzzy-Set QCA 159
12. Conclusion: Oil and the Future of Great Power Politics 173
13. Notes 183
14. Index 211