7 septembre 2022 | International, Naval

US Navy increasingly factoring climate change into exercises

The U.S. Navy's climate strategy paints climate change as one of the '€œmost destabilizing forces of our time,'€ aggravating other national security issues.

https://www.c4isrnet.com/naval/2022/09/07/us-navy-increasingly-factoring-climate-change-into-exercises/

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