Posted on Aug 2, 2019
Army War College: The U.S. Military is “Precariously Underprepared” for Climate Change
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The United States Army War College recently released a report exploring the significant impact climate change will have on national security and U.S. Army operations, and offering a set of urgent recommendations. The second sentence of the report sets the stage immediately, stating “the Department of Defense is precariously underprepared for the national security implications of climate change-induced global security challenges.”
The report details the most eminent threats climate change poses to national security: severe weather events, mass migration, diminishing global freshwater supplies, changing disease vectors, Arctic competition, stress on the U.S. power grid and nuclear reactors, as well as sea-level rise.
The report details the most eminent threats climate change poses to national security: severe weather events, mass migration, diminishing global freshwater supplies, changing disease vectors, Arctic competition, stress on the U.S. power grid and nuclear reactors, as well as sea-level rise.
Army War College: The U.S. Military is “Precariously Underprepared” for Climate Change
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I thought the official policy of US Government was that AGW was all a Chinese scam and just fake news. Many here echo that particular denial of reality
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This needs to be a topic at all the senior and intermediate service schools.
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Which part, the fact that it establishes a destabilizing effect on old country demarcation on maps, or that diseases/vectors will be headed into new areas. Or the fact that we as human beings have a finite comfort zone when it comes to temperature fluctuations. Or is it that most bases are either in the path of destructive weather anomalies or soon to be? Who still wants to hold the snowball in Congress now? I wonder?
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