This assignment is about a special current event (BRICS ) and its potential impact on supply chains and management of global distribution systems. It is to be done concurrently with other assignments (and hence, over 3 weeks to complete H6), and I think you will find it very interesting and important. Read the following background material and do some web-based research on your own, then write a 2-page (minimum) summary with discussion of the implications of the BRICS (BRICS plus the new members) domination of global oil production, control of key sea routes and choke points, and plans to eliminate the petrodollar, to U.S. supply chains and distribution management systems. For those students with a military background (which is most of us), feel free to elaborate on Mahan's key ideas in his famous book published in 1890Links to an external site. and which is touched on in the following background material. You may copy and paste material, but please give references and include your own thoughts about your selected topic