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The Electrified Battlespace: China’s Clean Tech Lead and America’s Missed Opportunity
Military power ultimately rests on industrial capacity. China is now translating its dominance in electric vehicles, batteries, and power-management systems into military capability.
A publicly released Army intelligence report highlights how China is leveraging its lead in “clean tech” to build battlefield capability. China’s new hybrid-electric armored vehicles not only reduce fuel consumption and associated logistics burdens, but are designed to be more mobile, quieter, and harder to detect, while also generating substantially more onboard electrical power.
This latter point is particularly important because demand for electricity across the battlefield is increasing, and electricity is becoming a central enabler of combat power, whether at small forward operating bases, in space, or across air, sea, and land platforms. Modern militaries increasingly need this power not just for propulsion, but also to meet the growing demands of AI-enabled systems, drones, advanced sensors, electronic warfare, communications, directed-energy weapons, and additive manufacturing.
(more…)Food Trade Chokepoints & US National Security in 2040
By Sarah Danon, Saro Naomi Gakusi, Ivette Povis Landa, Jane Pan, and Claire Reichle
Edited by Caroline Baxter, Lily Boland, and Francesco Femia
Executive Summary
This study examines how the intersection of climate, geopolitical, and security threats can intensify vulnerabilities surrounding critical chokepoints in the global food trade system, and posits that these converging risks not only threaten global food security but also drive systemic threats to US national security. A strategic foresight approach is used to examine plausible future scenarios for global food trade and explore potential chokepoint disruptions and their cascading risks. The analysis concludes that maintaining secure maritime food trade is vital to US national security and provides recommendations to mitigate trade disruption and promote food security.
New on the CCS Bookshelf: Climate Change on the Battlefield
Today we celebrate the release of CCS Director Erin Sikorsky’s new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield: International Military Responses to the Climate Crisis. The book is a comparative look at how militaries worldwide are approaching the security risks of climate change. It begins by exploring how climate affects military readiness, increases demand on militaries for disaster response, and hampers existing military missions. It then includes case studies of China, France, Kenya, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, comparing countries that are layering or integrating climate into their current strategies versus those taking a more transformative view of how climate is changing their militaries’ role. The book also looks at NATO and the African Union.
Shrinking or Abolishing FEMA is a Grave Risk to US National Security
By Tom Ellison and Victoria Salinas