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When Climate Change is a National Security Issue

OPINION — “The combined impacts of climate insecurities and resource scarcity in fragile states exacerbate poverty and social instability, drive [...] More

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Winter is Coming: Global Energy Markets and the Impact on National Security

Winter is Coming: Global Energy Markets and the Impact on National Security

Colder weather is settling in around much of the globe and after a year and a half of managing a global pandemic, energy markets are more complicated [...] More

The US Drought and its Connection to National Security

Erin Sikorsky is deputy director of the Center for Climate and Security, and the director of the International Military Council on Climate and [...] More

Defining the IC's Mission Space for Climate Change

Defining the IC's Mission Space for Climate Change

As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and [...] More

How to Integrate Climate in Future National Security

How to Integrate Climate in Future National Security

As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and [...] More

China's Risky Record on Climate

China's Risky Record on Climate

US Climate Envoy John Kerry is in China ahead of a Climate Summit next week hosted by US President Joe Biden. As tensions between the two countries [...] More

The Pentagon's 'All Hell Breaking Loose' Scenario for Climate Change

The Pentagon's 'All Hell Breaking Loose' Scenario for Climate Change

The Pentagon often wargames future scenarios for when 'all hell breaks loose' with the idea of training for the worst-case scenario. Secretary of [...] More

Russia's Climate Problem and Opportunity

Russia's Climate Problem and Opportunity

Temperatures in Russia are increasing at more than double the global average, according to scientists, proving that climate change and extreme [...] More

Why The Intelligence Community Needs a Climate Change Task Force

Why The Intelligence Community Needs a Climate Change Task Force

Kristin Wood, Sr. Climate Editor, The Cipher Brief[rebelmouse-image 60322657 expand=1 dam=1 alt="Kristin Wood bw" site_id=26883708 [...] More

The Climate and U.S. National Security: A Conversation Series

The Climate and U.S. National Security: A Conversation Series

CLIMATE — One of President Biden’s first areas of focus after taking office on Wednesday was on the climate, reinstating a commitment that the US [...] More

National Security Lessons on the Climate

“Lessons adopted” is a much more important concept than “lessons learned.” Lessons adopted requires the learning of lessons, but it also requires a [...] More

Finding Water in the Desert: Water Security in the Middle East

Finding Water in the Desert: Water Security in the Middle East

In 1979, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that “the only matter which could take Egypt to war again is water.” That war may not have come yet, but [...] More