Crossposted from the blog of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
“God bless America!” That’s all I could think to say when I heard the story of Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe, a veteran of the U.S. Army who last week branded as traitors anyone with the temerity to disagree with him on [...]

Crossposted from the blog of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
“God bless America!”  That’s all I could think to say when I heard the story of Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe, a veteran of the U.S. Army who last week branded as traitors anyone with the temerity to disagree with him on policy.  [...]

There is a growing understanding that the impacts of climate change will bring with them serious implications for U.S. national security.  The Senate Foreign Relations and Energy committees have held hearings on this topic.  The intelligence community and the Department of Defense–in the George W. Bush administration–began to examine the topic and factor it into [...]

With all the back and forth over climate change and national security, one issue has been lost in the debate: there are a lot of reasons to look hard at our dependence on petroleum for energy supplies–global warming is just one of them.
Consider that in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the largest cause of casualties have [...]

Two years ago, ASP began asking prominent Americans one question:
What is the single most important lesson we should draw from America’s experience in Iraq?
Our intent was to begin a national dialogue about the Iraq war in order to gain wisdom from the experience.  Iraq Uncensored, recently published by Fulcrum Publishing, is the result.
This posting is [...]

The British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday, July 26, 2009, that the Bush administration had classified 1-meter resolution satellite images that demonstrated the loss of summer sea ice in the arctic.  The Obama administration, according to the Guardian, declassified the images last week.
Here are the images of Barrow, Alaska–taken in July 2006 and July 2007.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The [...]

Admiral Gunn’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as submitted to the record, is posted here.

Chairman Kerry asked if climate change will affect the force structure of the U.S. Military.
Admiral Gunn observed that the U.S. military is already well-suited for those kinds of operations. Admiral McGinn observed that there is a role for the U.S. to play before the worst happens.
Senator Shaheen asked if we have the capacity, given [...]

Chairman Kerry asked if climate change will take lives.
Senator Warner, Admiral Gunn and Admiral McGinn all answered in the affirmative that climate change will take human lives.
Senator Lugar raised the spectre of trade penalties being used to enforce climate change objectives and how that will affect the politics of climate change.
Sharon Burke responded that the [...]

Admiral Gunn’s testimony surveyed the case for climate change as a national security concern. We’ll post his complete testimony as soon as the hearing is over.
During his testimony, Admiral Gunn announced the formation of an ASP initiative to educate the public about the linkages between climate change and national security. Stay tuned for more details [...]