Pacific Standard | Yes, Oil Is Behind a Lot of Wars Pacific Standard It's not just some superstition: Oil really is behind a great deal of military conflict. Third-party states are more likely to intervene in civil wars when the conflict is in an oil-rich nation or the third party is particularly oil-thirsty, new ... Intervention in civil wars 'far more likely in oil-rich nations' The conspiracy theorists are right. Research shows nations really do go to war ... Foreign intervention '100 times more likely' in oil-rich states – study |