The Quadrennial Defense Review and Climate Change

As the Department of Defense (DOD) prepares to send the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to Congress, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today released a working paper by Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers, Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review, examining how DOD considered the effects of climate change during the QDR process.

As the Department of Defense (DOD) prepares to send the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to Congress, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today released a working paper, Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review, examining how DOD considered the effects of climate change during the QDR process.
 
According to authors Christine Parthemore and Will Rogers, “The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review will be an important bellwether for how the Defense Department views the present and future security environment – and how climate change considerations fit into that assessment...The verbiage of the QDR and the networks created by its process are growing more meaningful as climate change is more often incorporated into defense planning scenarios, wargaming, programming, planning and budgeting, particularly in the military services and the Combatant Commands.”

Promoting the Dialogue: Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review is the first in a series of reports focused on how the Department of Defense is integrating climate change considerations in its strategic planning.  The reports will analyze and offer recommendations on climate change implications for each of the Combatant Commands, maritime, ground and air missions.

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