Identify the role of energy in a national security interest, assesses policy options for addressing the role of energy, and provides a recommendation(s). The policy analysis can be an extension of the issue paper or a completely different topic, and is intended to provide a real-world application of the course content.

* Instead of just identifying how energy affects a security challenge, the Policy Analysis Paper is designed to identify and evaluate policies that respond and adapt to the challenge(s).
​* Policy analysis paper should identify the role of energy in a national security interest, assess policy options for addressing the role of energy in affecting that national interest, and provide a recommendation(s).​
1) Given what you know about energy, what could one do? ​
2) Will energy options reduce the risk? Provide an advantage?​
* Policy analysis paper can be an extension of the issue paper or a completely different topic.
The paper should be longer than 15 pages, be double spaced​, and use twelve point font. The references should be Chicago style footnotes or end notes (no author, date parenthetical references), and include a Chicago style bibliography.