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U. S. military and intelligence agencies are increasingly monitoring and preparing for how, when and where the consequences of a warmer

planet will collide with national security, requiring the

eventual need to deploy American troops to weather-torn

lands.

As climate-change arguments continue at home including

pundits who assert the scientific consensus on the issue is

overblown or concocted current and former Department of

Defense officials are mapping future strategies to protect

U.S. interests in the aftermath of massive floods, water

shortages and famines that are expected to hit and decimate

unstable nations.

For DoD, this is a mission reality, not a political debate, said

Mark Wright, a Pentagon spokesman. The scientific forecast

is for more Arctic ice melt, more sea-level rise, more intense

storms, more flooding from storm surge, and more drought.

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Those changes shape the future operating environment, help

us predict missions we'll have to undertake, and create

challenges and constraints on how we operate on our

bases, Wright said. We're taking sensible measured steps

to mitigate the mission risk posed by climate change.

Therein is a recipe for the kind of instability that will inevitably involve the United States in humanitarian assistance, disaster relief or, indeed, in a regional conflict.

The White House on Tuesday released an alarming litany of

current and near-term weather calamities that Americans

should plan to endure due to ongoing atmospheric shifts.

That report also noted: The implications of climate change

for U.S. national security are significant. And the White

House cited a 2010 Pentagon review that, for the first time,

acknowledged climate change would play a significant role

in shaping the future security environment.

But inside and outside the DoD, many experts agree U.S.

national security already is being tested by massive unrest,

revolts and humanitarian calamities triggered, in part, by

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climate change.

The civil war in Syria, which has left an estimated 100,000

people dead, has its roots in a regional drought, said retired

Navy Vice Adm. Lee Gunn, now a member of the military

advisory board for CNA Corporation, a non-profit research

and analysis organization in Alexandria, Virginia.

The current Syrian situation is linked in my mind, in part, to a

food shortage and drought in the region, which among other

things drove people from the farms to the cities, Gunn said.

The cities were unprepared in Syria to deliver the services

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demanded by a rapidly increasing population. Whatever the

other stresses were that the Syrian government was

undergoing, this had the potential to accelerate that set of

conditions.

The 2011 Arab Spring a torrent of civil wars, ruler ousters

and riots that spread from North Africa into the Middle East

similarly can be tied, in part, to a colossal winter drought

in China plus record heat waves and flooding in several other

countries, including Russia, where much of the wheat for the

Middle East is grown, Gunn said.

There was a drought and a wheat shortage that resulted in

an increase in wheat prices and, therefore, a increase bread

prices, a staple in North Africa," Gunn said.

For DoD, this is a mission reality, not a political debate."

U.S. security experts are scoping a new potential hazard: the

rice fields of Southeast Asia, and specifically Vietnam. The

CNA military advisors already have predicted that melting of

Himalayan glaciers would add to a sea-level rise that could

ruin that rice-producing basket. The same flooding could

ravage Bangladesh, creating a potential, mass refugee flow

into India, and also threaten the fresh-water resources of

India and Pakistan nuclear-armed nations that need to

share and collectively manage their water, Gunn said.

Our sense of that is its going to be the case where these

people who need to cooperate are essentially going to be

torn apart by the conditions that are changing, Gunn said.



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Among U.S. security and military strategists, perhaps an even

higher concern involves already unstable governments and

fragile societies that probably would not withstand mass

weather disasters. If those governments crumble, terrorists

could fill the resulting power voids, said Dennis McGinn,

assistant secretary of the Navy and a retired Navy vice

admiral.

We're taking sensible measured steps to mitigate the mission risk

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posed by climate change.

The last thing in the world these nations need are the severe

and more frequent effects of bad weather, including crop

failures, McGinn said. Therein is a recipe for the kind of

instability that will inevitably involve the United States in

humanitarian assistance, disaster relief or, indeed, in a

regional conflict.

McGinns feel for the nexus of climate change and national

security is based on his time as president of the American

Council On Renewable Energy, and from his collaboration

with Lee Gunn on the CNA military advisory board.

Should weather disasters overwhelm and destabilize

governments, ultimately wiping out the existing rule of law,

thats where you get all manner of bad folks filling that

vacuum, McGinn said. It could be terrorists. It could be

paramilitary, crime syndicates in the absence of good

governance. Thats the big concern.

We (the military) have a strong history of being apolitical. We

also understand risk. We deal with life-and-death risk,

McGinn said. This gives us a credibility and a perspective

that is necessary in dealing with all kinds of threats to

national security, including threats due to climate change.

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A NNAPOLIS, Md. Beneath the magnificent cupola of the Navys most recognizable religious structure, two men accompanied by their two children and about

100 guests gathered here Saturday for the U.S. Naval

Academy Chapel's first-ever same-sex wedding.

For the Naval Academy, it was an historic milestone that

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Before the ceremony got underway, the couple's wedding day

jitters mingled with concerns they had about opposition to

their nuptials.

Moats said that while he and Bucher are not advocates trying

to make a political statement with their wedding, they do

want to continue the efforts of those fighting for gay rights.

Were here to break barriers and take advantage of the

rights we have, Moats said, beaming.

The wedding was not widely publicized, and it wasnt

surprising to Naval Academy spokesman Cmdr. John

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Schofield to see no Academy opposition to the ceremony.

The Naval Academy is all about creating leaders for the

future and embodying and promoting a culture of dignity and

respect, Schofield said. And I think that its in line with those

values, those tenets that we hold dear, that we have our first

same-sex marriage here.

He said the Academy was proud to hold the wedding in

line with Maryland law. Same-sex marriage went into effect in

2013.

As groundbreaking as the wedding was for the Academy, it

stuck to tradition with formal prayers, a reading from

Corinthians and the United States Navy Hymn.

But Academy Chaplain Lt. John Connolly, who officiated the

ceremony, said the run-up to the memorable day wasnt all

smooth sailing.

David Bucher, 49, and Bruce Moats, 50, of Maryland kiss at their wedding in

Annapolis.

Not everyone agrees that this should be happening and it

took a significant amount of discernment on my own part as

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well as this couples as they were preparing for the day,

Connolly said.

But as he got to know Bucher and Moats, he understood how

in love they were.

The more I met with this couple, the happier I was to be

presiding today, he added.

The road for this gay couple has not been easy. Moats, a

director of communications for the World Bank, grew up in

rural West Virginia. He said he swam against a tide of

poverty and prejudice.

While getting married at the Naval Academys chapel, he

stood in awe of the venue.

Its intimidating to be in this grandiose setting, he said,

adding that his pre-wedding nerves were compounded by

knowing there are some who dont approve.

Were here to break barriers and take advantage of the rights we have."

But for David Bucher, the day was especially momentous

and tinged with a sense of redemption.

The son of an Ohio country judge, he graduated from the

Naval Academy and served at the time of Operation Desert

Storm in the early 1990s. But after five years, and against his

own wishes, he said, he left the Navy.

As a gay man in the military, the military didnt want me,

Bucher said. There was some aspect of my personal being



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that made me less qualified, they thought, so that was why I

exited the Navy. There was a certain level of rejection there.

But on Saturday, returning to the place where Bucher began

his career and sensing an extraordinary effort to welcome

him and his partner there was also a feeling of victory.

Hes working at the Pentagon, has a family and is married to

the love of his life.

To me, he said, that is a triumph.

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