Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Oorah !

Originally written for a local person interested in cc and energy, and planning on joining the Marines.
 
The United States Marine Corps, Energy & Climate Change


“Marines are modern-day Spartans – our ethos demands that we change the way we think about energy as we train, equip, and lead our expeditionary force…

by 2025 we will reduce by 50 percent our battlefield requirement for energy. By 2020 50 percent of our bases and stations will be net-zero energy consumers.”

USMC Expeditionary Energy Plan

Short Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQCriQArXRo


What drives The Department of Defense, CIA , and NSA towards “sustainability”, is primarily a matter of two things:

The current and future impact of rapid climate Change

Energy for operations

The current and future impact of rapid climate Change

The view in the defense world of climate change is that it is a “threat multiplier/enhancer”. In essence, it makes the strategy, tactics, logistics more complex and difficult. In classic military terms it creates and enhances “friction” *
The best document I have found to date, that illustrates this point, and is a good general guide to the current thinking in the DOD is:
Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security (2011) READ THIS in ENTIRETY http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dsb/climate.pdf
RE National Security & Climate change (slow download, but a good 16 overview)
American Security Project
http://americansecurityproject.org/issues/climate-energy-and-security/new-climate-change-home-page-oct-25/
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®), The search "climate change" results:
http://dsearch.dtic.mil/search?site=default_collection&q=climate+change&client=dticol_frontend&proxystylesheet=dticol_frontend&proxyreload=1&filter=0&tlen=200&getfields=*&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0




General USMC Topic Links:

 

USMC Publications Electronic Library


 

USMC Doctrinal Publications


 

Rapid Climate Change Links, Generally

 

Rapid Climate Change Strategy (especially the materials in the bibliography)


 
Energy for operations
Energy (fuels and electricity) are crucial to any military endeavor, and an abundance of energy is crucial to the U.S. conception of full spectrum dominance of the battlespace.
Having your energy logistics separate from that of the civilian sources is basic military common sense. Since the civil government of the United States has intentionally or by non-action decided to maintain a fossil energy base, and given to spatial and temporal problems with tying your logistical framework to that base, an alternative is needed. This is even more important when potential adversary governments are working on ending their own dependence on fossil energy. Hence the Green Fleet and Green Marine transformative change occurring in the military.

 The adoption and transition to renewable energy will increase strategic and operational flexibility. It is also deemed necessary to preserve in this century the key concept in Marine warfighting, maneuver warfare. This is the incapacitating enemy decision-making through shock and disruption

“maneuver is traditionally thought of as a spatial concept, that is, the use of maneuver to gain positional advantage. The U.S. Marine concept of maneuver however is a "warfighting philosophy that seeks to shatter the enemy’s cohesion through a variety of rapid, focused, and unexpected actions which create a turbulent and rapidly deteriorating situation with which the enemy cannot cope."

 MCDP 1 United States Marine Corps Warfighting.

The U.S. Marine manual goes on to say:

"This is not to imply that firepower is unimportant. On the contrary, firepower is central to maneuver warfare. Nor do we mean to imply that we will pass up the opportunity to physically destroy the enemy. We will concentrate fires and forces at decisive points to destroy enemy elements when the opportunity presents itself and when it fits our larger purposes."

Biofuels and renewable tech are now part of the new logistics paradigm.

Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office
Department of the Navy Energy, Environment and Climate Change
http://greenfleet.dodlive.mil/
Energy as a Tactical Advantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdYM7uSWhQ

and
http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/160/Docs/USMC%20Expeditionary%20Energy%20Strategy%20%20Implementation%20Planning%20Guidance.pdf


* “In practice, the conduct of war becomes extremely difficult because of the countless factors that impinge on it. These factors are called friction, which Clausewitz described as “the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult.” MCDP Warfighting, p.13.

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