Retired Army Colonel Moves Into World of Documentary Film
by HollywoodlandCol. Dan Nolan (Ret.) at Big Government:
My participation in “Carbon Nation” came about quite fortuitously. After I retired from the Army, I was working as a government analyst, looking at the tactical implications of energy security. I was leaving that position to try to encourage commercial interest to get involved with the Department of Defense to help solve what had been a strategic dilemma since the ‘70s: oil dependance. A friend asked me to speak to a documentary film maker about my concerns. I met Pete Byck outside the U.S. Capital building on a bright spring day and tried to tell the story of DOD’s efforts to solve a national security issue.
Having received a post graduate degree in National Security and Strategic Planning from the U.S. Naval War College, I put those tools to work to understand the larger implications of our addiction to fossil fuels. What I concluded was that climate change was a concern, the economic drain was unfortunate and that the national security implications were terrifying. …
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