<div>The article below discusses a U.S. Army War College report, "The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change," which includes climate change causing melting glaciers, and the resulting impacts on water supplies, as a major issue:</div>
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<div>Military Sharpens Focus on Climate Change</div>
<h2>A Decline in Resources Is Projected to Cause Increasing Instability Overseas</h2>
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<div id="byline"><font size="2">By </font><a title="Send an e-mail to Juliet Eilperin" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/juliet+eilperin/"><font color="#0c4790" size="2">Juliet Eilperin</font></a></div>
<font size="2">Washington Post Staff Writer<br>Sunday, April 15, 2007; Page A06 </font>
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<p>The U.S. military is increasingly focused on a potential national security threat: climate change.</p>
<p>Just last month the U.S. Army War College funded a two-day conference at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies titled "The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change." </p></div>
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<p>The Army's former chief of staff, Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, who is one of the authors, noted he had been "a little bit of a skeptic" when the study group began meeting in September. But, after being briefed by top climate scientists and observing changes in his native New England, Sullivan said he was now convinced that global warming presents a grave challenge to the country's military preparedness.</p>
<p>"The trends are not good, and if I just sat around in my former life as a soldier, if I just waited around for someone to walk in and say, 'This is with a hundred percent certainty,' I'd be waiting forever," he said.</p>
<p>Part of the sense of urgency, the generals said in interviews last week, stems from the fact that changing climatic conditions will make it harder for weak nation-states to address their citizens' basic needs. The report notes, for example, that 40 percent of the world's population gets at least half its drinking water from the summer melt of mountain glaciers that are rapidly disappearing.</p>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Moffett</b> <<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>"---a talley that does not include the impacts of climate change."</div>
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<div>Consider this report from India, which mentions developing military capabilities for "outright military conflict" resulting from the impacts of climate change, of which one of the major changes will be the melting of the Tibetan plateau glaciers, reducing the amount of water available feeding major rivers in Asia:</div>
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<div>Climate Change and National Security: Preparing India for New Conflict Scenarios:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nationalinterest.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/inipolicybrief-no1-climatechangeandnationalsecurity-nitinpai-april2008.pdf" target="_blank">http://nationalinterest.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/inipolicybrief-no1-climatechangeandnationalsecurity-nitinpai-april2008.pdf</a></div>
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<div>I quote:</div>
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<div> "Deterring Water Wars. India must consider reviewing its strategic doctrines to deter 'water wars.' India's current "no first use" nuclear doctrine threatens punitive retaliation upon a nuclear attack on Indian territory or on its forces. While bringing water wars directly inside the nuclear red line might be disproportionately escalatory, a commitment to the use of force in the event of unilateral diversion of water resources by the upper riparian is likely to have a deterrent effect."</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><span class="q">
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ellen Roskovich</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com" target="_blank">gussie443@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<div><strong>A little reading material with that early morning cup of coffee. . . </strong></div>
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<div>Coming soon: 'Sustainable water' certification</div>
<p><span>Mar 17, 2009</span></p></span>ISTANBUL (AFP) — ---------</div></blockquote>
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<div><br>By 2030, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 3.9 billion people, or nearly half of the world's population, could be living in severe water stress -- a tally that does not include the impacts of climate change.<br>
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