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
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)
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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.
“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 Changehttp://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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