The Pentagon recently announced that climate change would be taking a step up from a threat multiplier, to an immediate factor, that worsens conflicts. It has been noticed that significant clashes around the globe are either initiated or further inflamed because of environmental factors. To combat this issue that U.S. government has decided to incorporate this potential threat into daily military objectives. Extra planning and training will take place to further prepare for these future missions.

This topic links with corporate shared value. The U.S. government, acting as the business, is expanding to include climate change as a core military value, likely to benefit them. The conflicts that the U.S. continuously finds themselves participating in, are worsened by situations such as drought or famine. Addressing this situation during the planning process of missions could benefit the military in handling difficult situations in a more effective and efficient manner. Training in all types of natural disasters will now be considered a requirement. I believe this tactic will be beneficial to the U.S. military. It is definitely interesting to see business concepts learned in class being executed in many diverse aspects around the world.

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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/13/pentagon-global-warming-will-change-how-us-military-trains-and-goes-to-war