A Climate Change Industrial Policy

The U.S. military devotes prodigious time and resources to analyzing future threats and trying to prepare for them. Since the end of the Cold War it has been going through a painful, two-steps-forward-one-and-a-half-steps backward process of reorienting a force structure organized around fighting conventional wars against peer adversaries like the Soviet Union to one better suited to facing "asymmetric" threats: guerrilla forces, insurgents, non-state actors in general. Here's a quick indicator in the budget for new weapons purchases of how entrenched the old mindset still is.