strategic resources
Vital national materials
Strategic resources are assets essential for military capability, economic power, or national security—things like oil, rare earth minerals, water, or critical infrastructure.
Nations compete to secure strategic resources and may go to war over them.
The term appears in military planning, geopolitics, and strategy games alike: The alliance controls the region's strategic resources.
- investment capitalFunds allocated for ventures
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- patentsExclusive rights to inventions
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- revenue streamsChannels generating business income
water · trademarks · arable land · rare earth elements · minerals · algorithms · wind energy · timber · solar energy · power grid · credit lines · trade secrets · expertise · supply chains · data centers · coal · technological innovations · savings
- geoeconomicseconomic coercion, economic leverage, trade wars, currency wars, economic warfare
- resourcesmoney, capital, materials, supplies, assets
- civilizationempires, empire, civilizations, dynasty, kingdoms
- war productionwar production, wartime production, munitions factories, weapons factories, weapons manufacturing
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