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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.
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State Level Climate Security Briefers: Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington
CCS has released the latest in a series of subnational climate security briefers focused on the US states Colorado, Hawaii, and Washington. Each state faces a range of risks to lives, critical infrastructure, military bases, and local economies from intensifying extreme weather and climate hazards. Federal agencies, particularly the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), provide critical support to these states to help manage these risks. That support has, in some cases, already been cut by the Administration or is facing further proposed cuts.
Read the Briefers here:
State Level Climate Security Education: Colorado
By Madeline Craig-Scheckman and Haidi Al-Shabrawey
State Level Climate Security Education: Hawai’i
By Jessica Kēhaulani Wong
State Level Climate Security Education: Washington
By Natalie Fiertz
CCS Comments on the First National Nature Assessment Zero Order Draft
Last month, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and its Ecological Security Program (ESP) had the opportunity to comment on the Zero Order Draft for the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1) prepared by the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and is publishing its input here. Last year, CCS submitted public comments on the NNA1 Draft Prospectus and published a blog post about the input. As noted at the time, NNA1’s work to assess the status and trajectory of the US natural environment and the risks of its degradation marked an important step in evaluating broader ecological security issues in the US. This report will be similar in scope to National Climate Assessments published since 2000.
CCS continues to broadly support the themes and framework of the Zero Order Draft, and looks forward to NNA1’s completion in 2026. As indicated in the comments, the USGCRP has included the majority of the recommendations CCS made on the Draft Prospectus and incorporated them into the new outline. While all twelve of the anticipated chapters of the NNA1 have implications for domestic and international security, Chapter 9: Nature and Risk, Resilience, and Security in the U.S. and Chapter 10: Nature and Climate Change in the U.S. have the most direct relation to the work of CCS and ESP.
Overall, CCS’s comments emphasize the importance of expanding the geographic focus of the NNA1 beyond domestic, publicly owned lands and including analysis on potential risks of maladaptation to human security and U.S. national security. Below are CCS’s specific comments under the aforementioned chapters.
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