Courtesy of Mark Douglas Whitaker on the World Systems Network list. "Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and Central Asia," by Lieutenant Colonel Lester W. Grau, US Army, Retire (In Military Review, "The Professional Journal of the United States Army", May/June, 2001) http://www.cgsc.army.mil/milrev/English/MayJun01/grau.htm
Richard Hutchinson comments, "I read this piece by Grau in "Military Review" (thanks, Mark), and it corroborates Rashid and others -- the Afghanistan pipeline plan is not considered a high priority. In fact, Grau writes it off entirely. Not that he is THE authority on the subject, but his analysis certainly lends no support to the Ted Rall/Guardian Unocal Conspiracy Theory.
RH