Posted on 06/23/2022 3:40:54 PM PDT by Retain Mike
The Navy next week will host an open-source table-top wargame to experiment with how climate change could affect a future conflict, a service official said today.
The half-day exercise will feature individuals from Capitol Hill, the Defense Department, the defense industry, think tanks and academia, Navy assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment Meredith Berger told reporters during a Defense Writers Group breakfast.
The purpose of the June 29 exercise is “to come together and really think about and experience what it means to operate in a climate-impacted environment,” Berger said.
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“We’re going to create the right level of stress in a very responsible way to see that it is hard to make these choices and there [are] unanticipated consequences and there’re costs and impacts and all sorts of intervening circumstances that we need to think about from each other’s perspectives,” she added.
So, when does fighting the ship become “a very responsible” priority in all of this? Shouldn’t that be the primary constraint defining the exercise? Why is nobody saying that?
It certainly does not help the case that this undersecretary reinforces the stereotypical portrayal of a blond joke as much as the undersecretary who told John McCain that the B-1B bomber with GPS and precision munitions was an adequate tactical aircraft substitute for the A-10 warthog and its gun.
What? Are they going to open fire with their CIWS at the flipping CLOUDS?!?!
ROFL
Our ships weren’t designed to float when the sea-level rises 6 ft.
Oh, give me a break.
If they simply take them out of the water, the water level will go down.
Ask Halsey about fighting “climate”.....
I can see this now: “I’m sorry Mr.President. We can’t go to war because it will be a disaster for climate change.”
We have a rudderless, weak, and afraid military.
King Xerxes in 480 BC was losing a war as his Persian troops were swamped and held back by the raging seas.
“Infuriated with the seas, Xerxes marched out to the sea and whipped it with a chain 300 times as his soldiers watched and shouted curses at the water.
He also beheaded the engineers who built the bridge, which may have been a contributing factor to his eventual success.
The bridges were then rebuilt to the exact specifications required to hold 300,000 Persian troops bent on destruction, along with their pack animals, cavalry, and whatever else they could carry. This time, the bridges held and the Persians marched out to meet the Greeks – who would kick the Persian Army right back out of Europe by the following spring.
When the Persians arrived at the bridges in full retreat, they had been destroyed again.”
-——on WeAreTheMighty website and others.
how... by staying in port???
Sailors(can you still call them that) are going “Facepalm”
I fear a tyrannical government far more than a climate theory.
Build more icebreakers.
Whadda bunch of fricken’ morons...
Glad we don’t have to fight the battle of Midway with this clown navy.
We can only have 7000 Marines deployed there at any given time!!!
“Navy Holding Climate Change Wargame”
Why do I think Putin and Xi have NOTHING TO DO with this crap when it comes to military readiness and capability.
Unreal. Training to fight a hoax. Send in the non binary marines
As long as the warfare tempo is in the centuries range, this is a valid exercise.
But warfare does tend to move a bit quicker than that.
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