3 Pentagon Strategy Documents in 3 Months Highlight Climate Change Risks

Jun 10, 2019 | Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia
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From April to June of this year, the U.S. military has issued not one, but three strategy documents that highlight climate change risks to the U.S. military mission.

These documents together paint a very holistic picture of the Department of Defense’s strategic approach to the Arctic and the Indo-Pacific – two regions that are becoming increasingly more critical due to rapid climatic, demographic, political and economic changes.