Military-political Aspects of Ensuring US Energy Security

This work is dedicated to analyzing military-political aspects in the process of ensuring the United States energy security. The essence of energy security and military-political factor of its assurance on the example of the United States is being discussed in the work. This includes researching the conceptual basis of energy security and revealing the role of military-political aspect in a unified system of assuring energy security.
The work provides specific examples of US activities in terms of ensuring energy security in the regions of Middle East, Central Asia and Arctic. The options of use of military force by US in the process of assuring energy security with the purpose of protecting national interest has been identified in the work. Also, author discusses the current and planned policy of the US in direction of providing energy security.
In the conclusion of the work it is confirmed, that the US historically always emphasized the importance of energy security and it still represents the priority in terms of assuring the country's national security. The United States is a country which is ready to use a diverse arsenal of military-political aspects to ensure energy security with the purpose of supporting its growing economy.