The 2007 National Defense Authorization Act tasked the military to produce or procure 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025, and the Obama administration has identified energy as the center of its vision for America’s economic future. The Departments of Energy and Agriculture and the Navy have partnered to invest in developing and testing biofuels to create an industry that can produce enough affordable biofuel to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil along with the Service’s vulnerability to price shocks. But exploration of the military application and feasibility of biofuels indicate that they will not be cost competitive or available in necessary quantities and will put Service members at greater risk rather than improve energy security

The National Defense University seeks to implement the Chairman's guidance concerning an integrated strategy focusing on students and pooling the faculty across the whole institution. Students will know when theory is not matched by practice. They will look for signs that the Chairman's Desired Leader Attributes will be prioritized and employed at the university itself despite risks. It will not escape their attention if the university strategy for organizational change is not sufficiently strategic in the adaptive sense the times require. They will see the difference between being put first with a whole-of-university approach and old patterns. Implementing this vision will call for a total team effort, especially to present a significantly richer education experience by academic year 2015.

The information revolution is enabling individuals and groups to achieve truly disruptive effects. Web-based social networking can mobilize and align the power of group action with ease and speed. This article proposes a more modest solution for the combined arms warfare (CAW) anomalies. It is a complement to the CAW concept that accommodates the behavior of participants in the cyber domain as well as soft power participants from the natural domains called the Combined Effects Power (CEP) construct. The CAW model is not being jettisoned. This proposed CEP concept can serve, like the concept of quantum mechanics for Newtonian anomalies, as a remedy to explain the CAW anomalies.