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House cuts to Pentagon climate-resilience plans weaken the military
As weather grows harsher, hardening bases and gear is investment in capability.
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A Success in Norfolk Should Also Be a Warning
One flood-control project took a decade to complete. Lawmakers and feds can’t wait any longer to get the vast bulk of climate-mitigation work going.
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The Pentagon’s New Climate Plan Aims to Manage the Unavoidable
The new plan has considerably more specificity, requirements, objectives, and metrics than we had in 2014.
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What Would a Climate-Focused DoD Budget Look Like?
It’d be less about what we spend and more about how we spend the money we already have.
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Protecting US Bases Increasingly Requires Hardening Civilian Infrastructure
Congress needs to fund its Defense Community Infrastructure Program, and the military needs to think beyond its gates.
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DoD is Losing the Budget Endgame
Lawmakers have prioritized tax cuts, and now there’s just one way left for the defense budget to recover.
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Can Trump’s Defense Department Get More For Less?
If the administration’s version of defense reform is to succeed, it must focus on a few key principles.
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The Military Value of the Defense Department’s Energy Efforts
As the Trump administration reviews climate and energy policies, they should do it with a key goal in mind.
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