Threat multiplier : climate, military leadership, and the fight for global security /
"Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon's first Chief Environmental Officer, no one w...
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From weapons to waste
- The birth of environmental security
- Generals and admirals battle climate change
- Melting ice and rising tensions in the Arctic
- Drought, oil, and power in Africa and the Middle East
- Navigating Asia's disaster alley
- Imperiled neighbors to the south
- Climate readiness on the home base
- Less fuel, more fight
- Climate-proofing security
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the author.