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D.
Economic/Financial Viability of Key U.S. Allies and Friendly
Nations.
Although measures may be successful in assuring the provision of
adequate supplies to the Armed Forces of U.S. allies and friends, for
some of these allies and friends the impact of a major energy emergency
may impose severe strain on their economic and financial well-being.
This can have deleterious effects on U.S. security interests. United
States policy is to seek to minimize such effects since they can
significantly burden U.S. defense resources at the potential expense
of other security priorities. As a first step, the United States
should encourage its allies and friends to take actions and develop
plans to minimize these effects. However, there may arise a need for
possible U.S. steps to assist friends and allies. The means and
costs of such steps are not well defined. State, with assistance
from DOD, should continue to chair the study of the general macro-micro
economic and security implications of energy shortages for key U.S.
allies and friendly nations. As a first step, this examination
should include at least the following key countries: Turkey, Israel,
Portugal (others to be decided in conjunction with State) . Primary
issues to be addressed include:
1.
The degree of economic vulnerability to energy disruptions.
2.
Adequacy of local measures to deal with this vulnerability,
including pre-crisis measures which the foreign nation
could adopt to decrease the impact of an emergency.
3.
Possible U.S. or international policy alternatives, including
at least a discussion of limited economic and security
assistance, to address the identified vulnerabilities and
to deal with their consequences in a crisis.
The analysis and recommendations in this section should be
completed and forwarded (through the SIG-IEP) to the NSC for
decision no later than December 31, 1983. (s)
E.
Energy Emergency Preparedness for Mobilization and War
Energy emergency circumstances which occur in conjunction with
defense-related civilian economic mobilization introduce problems
and considerations of a nature and magnitude which are distinct
from those expected to prevail during an energy emergency in a
non-mobilization situation. Emergency Mobilization Preparedness
policy is enunciated in National Security Decision Directive 47.
The potential impacts of an energy emergency during mobilization
and/or armed conflict must receive additional attention. Accordingly,
the Emergency Mobilization Planning Board is directed to establish
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