ANALYSIS – With an increasingly powerful and belligerent communist China breathing down our necks, threatening to start World War III over Taiwan, Russia cyber-attacking their way into every U.S. government nook and cranny, and Afghanistan turning into a new terror base, Joe Biden’s Pentagon is laser focused on battling – Climate Change.
Rather than confront the myriad real world military threats facing America today, Biden’s obsequious Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is ensuring our troops are “climate literate,” declaring climate change to be a “critical national security issue.”
This, according to the first plan produced by Biden’s Pentagon, signed by Defense Secretary Austin and released on Oct. 7; the Defense Department’s vaunted “Climate Adaptation Plan.”
The 32-page plan identifies numerous tasks the Pentagon will undertake to “enhance resilience to the effects of climate change” and “reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
As Thomas Spoehr, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, writes in The Hill:
The plan also identifies the need to develop a “climate literate and capable workforce.” As part of that effort, it intends to integrate “climate change literacy into all its training and education efforts, from skill-specific military education to graduate training in the war colleges.” No matter that, due to a high operational tempo and time constraints, service members already struggle to learn basic warrior tasks such as ship navigation or driver’s training for armored vehicles. Climate change will likely raise to the top of an already long list of topics requiring training.
Nor are Pentagon climate adaptation efforts confined to America. The plan calls for efforts to “build partner nation capacity to respond to climate change related hazards.” As the U.S. works to assemble strong coalitions to counter Chinese and Russian hegemony, our allies can look forward to U.S. military officials mansplaining how they, too, can become “climate-literate.”
Spoehr adds:
This does not appear well-calculated to win military friends and influence allies, much less win wars. One might think the Pentagon has more pressing matters to attend to… like the Navy, which is struggling, without a defined path forward, to amass the numbers and types of ships needed to prevail in future conflicts. Or developing a clear strategy for deterring Chinese aggression.
The decision to prioritize working up a climate adaptation plan is puzzling but unfortunately not surprising. In Biden’s March 2021 Interim National Security Guidance, the topic of climate change was featured no fewer than 14 times, while the U.S. Navy or Army – subjects you might expect to see mentioned in a U.S. security strategy – received no mention whatsoever.
The Defense Department certainly does need to adapt to a changing climate. Multiple military installations are located on or near the ocean and must be hardened and made resilient. But when it comes to prioritizing efforts within the Pentagon, developing the capacity to deter military threats that pose near-term existential risks to the country must come first. China is reportedly doubling or possibly even tripling the size of its nuclear arsenal. North Korea continues to improve its ballistic missiles.
Planning how to respond to those lethal global military threats should be the number one Pentagon priority, not obsessing over the weather and greenhouse gasses.
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Sounds more like a Democrat Defense Department is defending all of those who will get government loans to manufacture climate change products and then default on them, at the taxpayers’ expense.
The Sun shoots out solar flares. Changing weather patterns over the centuries happens as we travel through space, isn’t really the climate change that Democrats want to milk the public for. It’s weather. And warmer weather, bless its’ big hot heart, means less fuel consumption and more crops, a blessing.
WHEN we get attacked by radical Islam again it won’t mean shit what the climate is
Amen, brother! OR China, OR Russia, OR God only knows Who else.
Yes, several more Solyndra’s and we can be DESTITUTE.
Honest to God, SOMETHING’S got to be Done with All of these WackJobs, SOON!
Well, they have to invent SOME enemy to combat, since they’re not able to counter any force that fights back. Is it not ironic that liberals aren’t screaming to the rafters when their congressional and executive branch ‘heroes’ traipse around the country aboard carbon-spewing, luxury jet aircraft and limousines at taxpayer expense? (It’s also confusing to me that another of their ‘many’ angst-producing calamities–Young Children being exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke–is ignored as parents haul their kids into casinos to lose their nest eggs. There’s got to be some psychological term to describe such behavior. Hmm, let’s see……I’ve got it!
“ASSHOLES”!
They’re as SICK as SICK Gets!
LIBERALISM DESTROYS! And Boy!, are we ever seeing it in action and FEELING it!
Thus is gettin’ Reeeeeeeal CRITICAL.
You nailed it
I’m curious has our Defense Secretary taken a MANDATORY drug test?….his priorities are so out of touch with the world we live in and the dangers from Foreign Powers and Terrorists, that you have to believe he isn’t thinking rationally……well, if something seriously bad happens while he’s focused on whether in 20 years the Sahara Desert is 1/2 a degree warmer, I hope that he is personally held accountable……maybe he can figure out a way to send some of his hot air to Anatartica, since it is the coolest there, than it has been in the last 50 decades
ACCOUNTABLE?!!! CERTAINLY you Jest!!!
These Godless IDIOTS are right out a friggin’ Nightmare.
THIS MUST ALL BE REIGNED IN SOON IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE
LISTEN UP…CLIMATE CHANGE is NOT Going to PREVENT the SUN from DESTROYING ALL LIFE on EARTH. GOD had it PREPLANNED Since the BEGINNING of TIME. GOD is G oing to CLEANSE HIS PLANET EARTH from ALL SIN. The SUN will SELF DESTRU CT Afterwards. G OD will Make ALL THINGS NEW. Fr om SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
These ignorant Democrats have been pushing either a new ice age or global warming for the past 50 years. Since those did not pan out, they pay their government so called scientists to scare ignorant people with climate change. This gives the power to control the public and to raise our taxes. They continue to get rich with these scare tactics, but they are destroying our economy and our country. They have brainwashed the young in order to continue this farce. Hell they cannot control the border or cure Covid. but supposed to believe that they are going to stop climate change by raising taxes. Funny that this is such a crisis that Biden is now asking oil companies to increase production to lower gas prices. People are you reallybthis stupid?
AL GORE, baby! Keep preachin’ the Bullshit to the Godless moron masses that buy into this lunacy and get filthy rich!
LIBERALISM IS UNQUESTIONABLY A MENTAL ILLNESS
YES THEY ARE
Man made climate change is a complete fabrication. The climate does change over time but that is due more to cosmic factors like the sun. Plants love CO2 and thrive on it. That’s why we have a great symbiotic relationship with plants since they” breath” CO2 and expel O2. There is nothing man can do to change anything concerning the climate, and throwing vast sums of money at it will not change a thing other than send us back to the stone age by wreaking our economy and way of life.
INCREDIBLE the “slight of mind” so many human beings suffer from. Next the Libs’ll be telling us we have to be one of those ancient cultures that worshipped the Sun or the Moon or the Oceans, or possibly Transvestites with Purple & Pink Hair and dyed genitalia to match.
Biden is guilty of many offensives that would considered serious for anyone in the military for which he is Commander in Chief and subsequently subject to military law. Not to mention treason for aiding and aabetting the enemy by his actions in Afghanistan. When will someone in athourity see that he is charged. When will the press live up to their responsibility to the American People?
NEVER! They’re as Nuts as Traitor Joe.
Senile Joe Biden is a bad joke!
He can’t tell his “donkey” from a hole in the ground!
Let’s go Brandon!
Thank God Reagan took on Grenada. Biden’s troops would have lost that skirmish.
This is the plan got take America down. Biden is just following orders. Biden can
This way with our military in not tip top shape when CHINA walks in and takes over our country our military will FOLD!
The FRAUD IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAS PUT OUT THE WELCOME MAT FOR CHINA!
THEY PAID BIDEN AND HIS COKE HEAD SON A TON OF MONEY! THEY OWN THE FRAUD!!
Yup, ALL of it’s enough to’ make ya’ shudder and puke convulsively.
Crooked TRAITOR Joe and his Totally, Completely PERVERSE SlimeSlug son.
Yes this communist democrat pedophile cult has ruined our America!
Why am I thinking of inmates running an asylum?
You GOT it, Live and In Color and Showing in….. heck, it’s now showing EVERYWHERE in this coming Shithole!!!
The US Military is developing a new weapon, bad weather. Assault the enemy with “bad Weather”, that will win wars.