{"id":10836,"date":"2015-08-07T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2015-08-07T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:00:33","slug":"pentagon-prepares-for-century-of-climate-emergencies-and-oil-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10836","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/pentagon-prepares-century-climate-emergencies-and-oil-wars-2021134422\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>US Army is preparing for a new era of war for oil.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/pentagon-prepares-century-climate-emergencies-and-oil-wars-2021134422\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While energy has always played a role in military conflicts, US military experts believe the geopolitics of energy, land and water is increasingly central to who rules, or ruins, the world.<\/p>\n<p>Two research documents published in recent months by the US Army reveal the military establishment\u2019s latest thinking in startlingly frank terms. The research not only lends credence to environmental warnings about how climate change will fuel political instability, but also vindicates concerns about how looming resource shortages could destabilise the global economy.<\/p>\n<p>Scarcity verdict<\/p>\n<p>In June the US Army published its report to the Department of Defence (DoD), outlining a new energy security strategy. Future US Army operations, it says, will be shaped by \u201cincreased urbanisation, rising populations, young adult unemployment, and a growing middle class that drive resource competition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The report also flags up \u201cclimate change, rapid technology proliferation and shifts in centres of economic activity\u201d as major forces of change:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal resource constraints will also undermine the integrity of the Army\u2019s supply chain\u2026 We can no longer assume unimpeded access to the energy, water, land, and other resources required to train, sustain, and deploy a globally responsive Army.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report therefore sets out a blueprint for how the US Army intends to sustain operational effectiveness, based on minimising its resource footprint, maximising efficiency, as well as securing resources critical to the military\u2019s global supply chains.<br \/>\n&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/pentagon-prepares-century-climate-emergencies-and-oil-wars-2021134422#.dpuf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon prepares for century of climate emergencies and oil wars US Army is preparing for a new era of war for oil. While energy has always played a role in military conflicts, US military experts believe the geopolitics of energy, land and water is increasingly central to who rules, or ruins, the world. Two research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[141,6741,7939,588,620,862],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-climate-change","tag-middle-east-eye","tag-nafez-ahmed","tag-oil","tag-pentagon","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10837,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}