Pentagon Will Add a Climate-Policy Czar.

[AlterErgo]

HOW ABOUT A “WIN A DAMN WAR FOR A CHANGE” CZAR?

 

[ll74]

About time.

 

[Rightguide]

About time.

Why? How does this help us to kill our enemies? How does this help us to prevail in combat with peer level forces? Show me how alleged "Climate Change" will be a factor in putting ordinance on target in Syria, Afghanistan, or the Taiwan Straits.

 

[ll74]

Why? How does this help us to kill our enemies? How does this help us to prevail in combat with peer level forces? Show me how alleged "Climate Change" will be a factor in putting ordinance on target in Syria, Afghanistan, or the Taiwan Straits.

Killing is not quite the goal of the Pentagon. Prevailing (not just in combat, but overall) involves a large number of mechanisms. Understanding how geography of the world might change and evolve is important to assist in understanding how to operate in multiple regions. It also might assist in exploiting weak points in governments and/or armies that may not be dealing with weather changes sufficiently. Not to mention it may help us on the humanitarian side, undermining regimes.

Your single minded "we need to kill our enemies in mortal kombat on the field of battle" brain is short sighted....

Overall, our military also needs to be prepared to handle changing climates.

 

[Rightguide]

Your single minded "we need to kill our enemies in mortal kombat on the field of battle" brain is short sighted....

That's what it all boils down to. When the Chinese sink one of our capital ships and sends the crew to the bottom of the ocean. Try having General Milley step up to the podium in the Pentagon and reply with a friggin' weather report. That'll stop em'.

 

[ll74]

That's what it all boils down to. When the Chinese sink one of our capital ships and sends the crew to the bottom of the ocean. Try having General Milley step up to the podium in the Pentagon and reply with a friggin' weather report. That'll stop em'.

If you can't battle in the environment because you can't handle the new terrain, then you can't win.

But it's not what it boils down to. War happens long before the battlefield...else you idiots wouldn't be so triggered by China......when's the last actual battlefield war they won? You're still busy measuring the size and strength of a military you'll never use because they've hacked your communications.

 

[ishtat]

If global warming continues. Russia which has never been capable of projecting its naval power will have unlimited access to the Worlds oceans. That is a massive geo-political issue attributable to climate change. China might also gain relatively easy access to the North Atlantic.

Unfortunately they will probably give the job to a geriatric has been general whose mind is still stuck in WWII.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

I predict that when China's hypersonic missiles rain down on transgendered armed forces, the climate will definitely change.

 

[AlterErgo]

N our 4 Star Rear Admiral will be on the rag and outa commission

 

[ll74]

I predict that when China's hypersonic missiles rain down on transgendered armed forces, the climate will definitely change.

Ignoring reality doesn't win battles, usually.

 

[Rightguide]

If global warming continues. Russia which has never been capable of projecting its naval power will have unlimited access to the Worlds oceans. That is a massive geo-political issue attributable to climate change. China might also gain relatively easy access to the North Atlantic.

Unfortunately they will probably give the job to a geriatric has been general whose mind is still stuck in WWII.

How does global warming allow more Russian Northern Fleet access to the World's oceans that would cancel the impediments of traversing known strategic choke points defended by the West, such as the passage between the North Cape of Norway, Bear Island, and/or Svalbard, which are outliers of Norway (Barents Strait), or the Greenland-Iceland-Norway (GIN) Gap and the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap? All of which is patrolled by American and Nato Navies, and sown with thousands of acoustic sensors sensitive enough to identify enemy ships by their acoustic signatures.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I do recall the cold war shutting down in the winter because the Soviets were ice-bound.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Ignoring reality doesn't win battles, usually.

I think the reality that China has a nuclear missile we can't even pretend to defend against - today - is much more salient that it might be 0.37 degC warmer in 2100.

 

[bellisarius]

This thread is FUNNY! The usual crew is all in on this one.

What you're looking at is yet another example of how incompetent this administration is. Read the press release, someone (yet to be named) will do something related to climate. What's the charter? What's the budget?

Remember when the creation of the "Space Force" was announced? Along with the announcement a chief was named, they had a budget, hell, they even had their own uniform. You can argue whether there should even be a "Space Force" but it was rolled out as a package. This has been announced sorta like a political after thought whose timing just happens to coincide with COP26.

Back in the late 80's the Navy rolled out the "Paperless Ship" initiative. Made a big deal of it, even named a head of the program. So the "head" had an office in Crystal City with a secretary, a gofer, and no authority or budget.

Until all of those blanks are filled no one knows if this is just bullshit window dressing or not.

 

[Rightguide]

I do recall the cold war shutting down in the winter because the Soviets were ice-bound.

The Northern Fleet which is, for the time being, defensive in nature, is headquartered in Murmansk which because of the North Atlantic Current which begins in the Caribbean is a warm water current that keeps the harbor at Murmansk ice free. Vladivostok, the headquarters for the Russian Pacific Fleet, though not being a warm water port, is kept ice free by ice breakers if needed in the Winter. The Russian Black sea Fleet if required could be kept locked up in that sea by closing the Dardanelles. just a thought.

 

[ll74]

I think the reality that China has a nuclear missile we can't even pretend to defend against - today - is much more salient that it might be 0.37 degC warmer in 2100.

But how many enemies have they killed? I thought that was your measure of effectiveness............

 

[Rightguide]

This thread is FUNNY! The usual crew is all in on this one.

What you're looking at is yet another example of how incompetent this administration is. Read the press release, someone (yet to be named) will do something related to climate. What's the charter? What's the budget?

Remember when the creation of the "Space Force" was announced? Along with the announcement a chief was named, they had a budget, hell, they even had their own uniform. You can argue whether there should even be a "Space Force" but it was rolled out as a package. This has been announced sorta like a political after thought whose timing just happens to coincide with COP26.

Back in the late 80's the Navy rolled out the "Paperless Ship" initiative. Made a big deal of it, even named a head of the program. So the "head" had an office in Crystal City with a secretary, a gofer, and no authority or budget.

Until all of those blanks are filled no one knows if this is just bullshit window dressing or not.

The rough parameters of the plan is as follows. Allocate tons of American tax payer money to the UN, the EU, the Third World, while China, India, and Russia continue to laugh their asses off at us and do nothing about the vast majority of the Planet's pollution they create.

 

[Rightguide]

But how many enemies have they killed? I thought that was your measure of effectiveness............

They killed quite a few biologically.

 

[bellisarius]

The rough parameters of the plan is as follows. Allocate tons of American tax payer money to the UN, the EU, the Third World, while China, India, and Russia continue to laugh their asses off at us and do nothing about the vast majority of the Planet's pollution they create.

That won't happen. The State Dept. reserves the right to give taxpayer money away to foreign powers.

 

[ll74]

That won't happen. The State Dept. reserves the right to give taxpayer money away to foreign powers.

The Pentagon only cares about the battlefield!