So let's see. They can't successfully predict weather 24 hours in advance most of the time, but they can predict weather 30 years in the future all of the time?

quote:

Originally posted by 12131:

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Could you imagine what Patton would have to say to this? Lord almighty...

Patton would never make it beyond corporal, in today's woke/social justice and engineering culture that is permeating the entire US government. They probably would dishonorably discharge him for some made up insubordination.

I don't think they'd have to "make up" subordination in this case. Patton would have been all over it.

flashguy

This is not from the Babylon Bee or the Onion. It is - sadly - a genuine DoD news release.

https://www.defense.gov/Explor...cle/Article/2596591/

DOD Exercise Highlights Need to Address Climate Change, Its Impacts

MAY 17, 2021 | BY DAVID VERGUN, DOD NEWS

The Defense Department's first climate and environmental security "tabletop" exercise, dubbed Elliptic Thunder, highlighted the growing security threats posed by climate and environmental change, while illustrating that prevention activities today are essential to avoiding dire consequences in the future, Annalise Blum, an American Association for the Advancement of Science policy fellow in Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy's Office of Stability and Humanitarian Affairs said.

Elliptic Thunder, which was co-sponsored by the Office of Stability and Humanitarian Affairs and the Joint Staff J5, took place March 25. Based upon future climate, economic and population forecasts, the exercise was set in East Africa in a notional future in which climate change had gradually disrupted natural systems, weakening several states in the region and increasing the risk of climate-driven extreme events. A combination of floods, droughts, and cyclones led to shortages of food, water, and energy — causing large-scale instability and migration. This instability expanded opportunities for extremist groups and strategic rivals to gain influence with consequences for U.S. national security and defense objectives.

Adam Mausner, senior policy advisor in SHA, noted that the exercise made clear that climate change is a national security issue, and should be tackled with the same urgency and resourcing as other major threats to our country. "Additionally, high-end conventional combat capabilities were of little use in the scenario, as our adversaries instead engaged in irregular warfare to gain advantage," he said.

Participants in the exercise included representatives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Africa Command; Joe Bryan, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense for climate; and representatives from the National Security Council, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Intelligence Community and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The main takeaways of the Elliptic Thunder exercise included:

Climate and environmental change will exacerbate existing threats and security challenges via increased frequency and severity of environmental stressors and extreme events. Compounding and cascading events are likely to be particularly disruptive.

Environmental changes have implications across the department with respect to great power competition, counterterrorism, our alliances and partners, basing, access to ports and landing sites, infrastructure investments and more.

DOD will need to develop and/or refine policies, authorities and organizations — as well as processes, budget and funding to best prepare for and respond to climate threats.

Improved understanding of emerging threats will help prevent and prepare for future environmental and climate security challenges. Enabling a shift to prevention activities will help avoid simply responding to crises.

Building partner capacity and resiliency will be critical to manage climate risks. Effective diplomacy and strategic messaging will be essential to countering adversaries who will seek to exploit climate-related insecurity for strategic advantage.

A whole-of-government approach is needed to address climate and environmental security threats across the federal government. Partnerships with industry, academia and non-profit organizations can improve sharing and coordination of data-collection, modeling, disaster response initiatives and early warning best practices.

Blum noted that participants expressed interest in future tabletop exercises to address the impacts of climate change and environmental security challenges. Future exercises, she said, might include greater participation from allies and partners to include experts from NATO, the United Nations, the scientific community, the humanitarian and disaster recovery community and other relevant experts.

Bryan emphasized the value of the exercise and the need for future exercises, assessments and other events to help the department better understand the links between climate change and global security.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Sigmund,

^^^^^^^^^^^^
That’s a crapload of BULL-SHIT right there!!

https://federalnewsnetwork.com...cet-of-the-military/

DoD will soon release climate change strategy that will impact almost every facet of the military

Scott Maucione@smaucioneWFED
July 15, 2021 3:02 pm

The Defense Department says it will have a plan to make climate change a main factor in the further strategy of the military’s operations, risk assessments and programming by Sept. 1.

The plan is required by a Jan. 27 executive order put into place by the Biden administration, and has the potential to effect nearly every aspect of how the military plans.

During a House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee hearing, Paul Cramer, who is performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for sustainment, said DoD is using the executive order to respond to climate change by enhancing military resiliency and reduce environmental harm.

“The primary purpose is to integrate climate change adaptation and climate resilience across our programs, management of real property, our public lands and waters and financial services,” Cramer said.

A 2018 DoD study (link below) found that more than a thousand military bases were vulnerable to effects of climate change.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com...e-to-climate-change/

While DoD is not ready to release the plan, Cramer said it will be based around five lines of effort:

Climate-informed decision making, where climate considerations must continue progress towards becoming an integral element of DoD’s enterprise resource allocations and operational decision-making process.
Train, test, and equip a climate-ready workforce, which will help shape the Department’s efforts across activities related to developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining equipment and services.
Resilient built and natural infrastructure.

Supply chain resilience and innovation, where DoD can be assured that key suppliers and industries can still operate while impacted by climate change with uninterrupted access to key supplies, materials, chemicals, and services.

Enhanced adaptation and resilience through collaboration where DoD will build unity of effort in mission across DoD components to exploit lessons learned and economies of scale and integrate that into existing DoD missions.

The executive order requires DoD to develop and submit “an analysis of the security implications of climate change (Climate Risk Analysis) that can be incorporated into modeling, simulation, war-gaming, and other analyses.”

It also states that DoD must consider the security implications of climate change when developing the National Defense Strategy, Defense Planning Guidance, Chairman’s Risk Assessment and other relevant strategy, planning, and programming documents and processes.

Starting in January 2022, DoD must provide an annual update, through the National Security Council, on the progress made in incorporating the security implications of climate change into documents and processes.

The individual military services are also developing their own plans and objectives within the parameters of the executive order.

Jennifer Miller, acting assistant Air Force secretary for installations, environment and energy, said the service is looking at reducing operational energy consumption and costs since it makes up 80% of the branch’s energy use.

“One of the things that we’ve been able to get funded this year is some of the relatively small items, whether it’s the angling of our windshield wipers on our aircraft, the little winglets, to things that we’ve been able to modify the aircraft,” she said. “We are often stealing good ideas from industry. All of these things we’ve been able to implement for less than $40 million this year have a return on investment within the future year’s defense plan and have some real opportunities for big savings, although they are little investments.”

Miller said the Air Force is also looking at new telework policies to reduce its environmental footprint. Miller said the service is working on determining installation energy and water vulnerabilities as well.

Miller’s Navy counterpart, Todd Schafer, said one main issue is that rising sea levels are putting costal bases at risk.

“We’re working to build a resilience plan, we work with local, county and state governments to ensure that we’re good partners with the community,” he said. “We’re also looking at the effects of climate change on things such as energy, water and also the cyber piece of this and what it can do for our control systems.”

The Navy is also running “black” exercises where it takes bases off the local power grid and forces them to work with an independent power source.

“Climate is a big deal for us. We’re prioritizing it into all the actions we do and we’re doing that to build climate resiliency into all of our infrastructure,” Schafer said. “That includes our master planning, our development, our design and construction, and then also it’s in all of our decision making processes.”

Jack Surash, acting assistant Army secretary for installations, environment and energy, said the service put together a climate working group in late February.

“We really see climate change having a big effect on the operating forces of the Army – the training, deployment, employment of operating forces and the need for such, as well as very obvious implications on our installation side,” he said.

Surash said in the next two months the Army will have a climate change strategy with a detailed action plan laying out a multi-year effort that covers operating forces and installations.

I am looking forward to the new electric powered C5 Galaxy. Should be interesting.....

Yep... The angling of aircraft windshield wipers will save us all from climate change!

Sigmund’s post basically boils down to, enemies will use the weather to gain advantage when possible. Like that hasn’t been happening in warfare since the dawn of time.
And as we have seen in so many military engagements in third world countries, regardless of what we do, 3rd world ( or the PC term emerging nations) will continue to pollute and negatively impact the environment to advance objectives, making any of our efforts hopelessly inconsequential

Here in the UK's Armed forces, I could see the writing on the wall in the late 90's. The first time we were all treated to a presentation from the bunch of civilian 'specialists in human affairs' calling the programme 'Investors in People', only the fact that I was the deputy CO kept me in my seat.

I had never had to listen to such a crock of shit in my life. I lived with the 'newthink' approach to military 'man-management' for the Armed Forces for just three years, and then I retired. I got interviewed by one of these new-think persons - a 20-something civilian with a degree in human ethics - who asked me to answer a couple of meaningful and very specific questions about my man-management skills that he had not fully comprehended, having observed me in the classroom. He seemed to be upset that I stressed the nature of our task [not job, civilians have jobs, soldiers have tasks] when I mentioned the high probability of collateral damage that was built in to even the best guided bombs at that time. He was seriously upset at one example I talked about from GW1, where Saddam had 'cushioned' a major CAC bunker under many floors of civilians, many of whom had been killed when we subsequently used deep-penetration bombs - I'm sure many of you will will remember that instance. My reply then, and still is now, that it was not ME who had placed my civilians in THE most dangerous location in Baghdad in the hope that it wouldn't get bombed. I got called heartless and uncaring.

Yup, that's me.

During that time I actually recommended the firing two of two of my officers, or rather, I offered them the option of changing their career path in a positive and mutually beneficial manner, so as to optimise the ingrowth benefit to both the present and future establishments. My only regrets were that I couldn't give them good kick up the butt as they walked out of the door.

It's sad to see that the world's greatest war machine is on the point of being to be taken over by people more suited to running a trans-gender cooperative chocolate factory where no cocoa bean is endangered.

This all seems like they are playing right out of this book.

Too bad the book is on sabotage, not protecting our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic…

SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL
Strategic Services (1944)


(11) General Interference with Organisations and Production

(a) Organizations and Conferences

(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of per­ sonal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and considera­tion." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of com­ munications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reason­ able" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the juris­ diction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

https://www.gutenberg.org/file...ges/26184-images.pdf

We are so fucked for our next war.

Without doubt every unit will have its own Political Officer enforcing climate, gender, and racial mandates from the President.
That will prevent possible misinformation from being passed among the ranks.

quote:

Originally posted by Sigmund:
Based upon future climate, economic and population forecasts, the exercise was set in East Africa in a notional future in which climate change had gradually disrupted natural systems, weakening several states in the region and increasing the risk of climate-driven extreme events. A combination of floods, droughts, and cyclones led to shortages of food, water, and energy — causing large-scale instability and migration. This instability expanded opportunities for extremist groups and strategic rivals to gain influence with consequences for U.S. national security and defense objectives.

I think the violence/extremism has been happening for at least the last 50-60 years already in East Africa, and the reasons are many not just "climate change". Haven't these people ever heard of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, etc... It's been a long time since any of these places were garden spots. There were plenty of problems there long before climate change became fashionable. Sounds like some people in the gov't/military are trying to shoe horn their pet cause as the justification for their future meddling in the area.

quote:

Originally posted by chellim1:

quote:

Originally posted by Flash-LB:

quote:

Originally posted by gearhounds:
These people are insane. What's more frightening is that the military aren't pushing back. We'll be ripe for an ass kicking in the next 3.5 years at this rate.

Maybe they're getting ready to push back. Don't forget the letter from the 100+ retired flag officers.

The problem is that the 100+ retired flag officers are retired. Anyone left, with any power, has gone fully "woke" which is another word for soft. Obama began the purge. Trump put it on pause. Biden has pushed it into hyperspace.

The purge did not begin with Obama. The purge began with Clinton.

It doesn't hurt anything to make long term contingency plans. I'm sure there are such plans to, for example, invade - or repel invasions from - every country on Earth and update them every so often. Most of them will never be used, but the plans for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq didn't happen in a vacuum; they had to have been planned well in advance. Similarly, rising sea levels, however improbable, would have big time implications. It's pretty hard to field a navy if its bases are under water. But this is hardly a pressing matter and could be done by maybe a hundred people in their spare time.

Climate change is real.

It has been happening for four billion years.

The planning is important.

As the climate shifts, some places will lose the ability to grow food and have drinkable water.

This will cause instability and possibly wars.

The have nots will try to take from the haves.

The Oklahoma dust bowl of the 1930 could look like a baseball sandlot.

Sea levels do not have to rise much to flood Florida in a big way.

The government claim Florida sea level is is rising 1/3 inch a year.

Overtime that could turn into a major problem.

The current woke regime does not have a clue.
They are pushing a useless agenda instead of planing for the real problems.