Strategic Insights. Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2010

• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Meteorology; Government and Political Science; Military Operations; Strategy and Tactics; *CLIMATE; *NATIONAL SECURITY; AIR STRIKES; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARMS CONTROL; CANADA; CHINA; DENMARK; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; DISARMAMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL LAW; FAROE ISLANDS; FINANCE; GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN); GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; GUIDED MISSILES; HISTORY; ICELAND; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; MELTS; MILITARY DOCTRINE; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH KOREA; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POLICIES; PREVENTION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; REPRINTS; RUSSIA; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SPACE WARFARE; SYMPOSIA; THREATS; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE SECURITY; QDR(QUADRENNIAL DEFENSE REVIEW); NSS(NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY); NORTHWEST PASSAGE(CANADA); NORTHERN SEA ROUTE(RUSSIA); INUIT; MICROSTATES; RESPONSIBILITIES; ANCSA(ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT); NUNAVUT; NUCLEAR STRATEGY; NUCLEAR DOCTRINE; NPR(NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW); PGS(PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Northwest Passage; Nunavut; Climate change; Iceland; inuit; North Atlantic; Northern Sea Route; Northwest passage; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA534797; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA534797

This issue of Strategic Insights explores the fascinating nexus of climate and security. While the jury remains out on the ultimate consequences of climate change, and whether the implications of recent warming trends will be as profound as the more pessimistic scenarios have suggested, military planners and security experts have been considering the potential impacts, and devising mitigative measures in case recent trends continue or accelerate. In the far northern reaches of our planet, earlier seasonal ice melts and brief periods of ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean have been a reality for several years--forcing Arctic states and peoples to confront a more pressing imminence of climate security challenges than yet experienced in many other parts of the world. In this issue, we consider both the broader issues of climate change and national security--as presented by Daniel Moran in Climate Change and Climate Politics and by Daniel Clausen and Michael Clausen in Situating Climate Security: The Department of Defense's Role in Mitigating Climate Change's Causes and Dealing with its Effects--and also the specific consequences of climate change on the Arctic region--as presented in Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland by Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen, and Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indigenous, State and Global Interests at the Top of the World by Barry S. Zellen.