Military Planning in a Context of Complex Systems and Climate Change

F. Gregory Hayden

Journal of Economic Issues, 2018, vol. 52, issue 2, 349-357

Abstract: The task of the U.S. military will continue to grow due to destruction from climate change across the globe. Climate change has caused the loss of military bases due to the ocean rising, and caused drought, more intense storms, and hunger, all of which has led to ethnic cleansing, mass migration, the destruction of institutions, and war in global perspective. Violence will continue to grow at a rate faster than the military’s ability to cope without a change in purposeful planning. Two concerns stressed at the week-long consortium, in which I recently participated at the U.S. Army War College, were (i) the substantial military burden due to climate change and (ii) the need to use the principles of complex systems in planning. Thus, the military needs to reach into areas devastated by climate change in order to reduce the likelihood of violence, and to use the correct understanding of complex systems principles for military planning to prevent war.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2018.1469864

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