"The climate crisis has enormous national security implications, and no one knows that better than Sherri Goodman, who long ago coined the phrase 'threat multiplier' to capture the ways this environmental wrecking ball would inform policymakers in situation rooms everywhere. There is no one better to take readers along on the Pentagons journey wrestling with this new and evolving reality implicating basing, training, peacekeeping, and much more. A must read for everyone who wants to understand why climate imperatives arent just for environmentalists." -John F. Kerry, former Secretary of State and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate "This is an immensely informative and very important book. The story of how climate change and global security are intertwined--and how the US Department of Defense grasped this reality to become the US government leader in embedding climate-change resilience into its core responsibilities--is told here by a woman whose deep insight and remarkable political skill helped her do more than anybody to achieve this stunning result." -John P. Holdren, Harvard University, former Science Advisor to the President "Over the course of my naval career, I came to appreciate how climate change was affecting global politics--literally altering the geostrategic landscape.

Sherri Goodman tells the untold story of how many of our nations military leaders came to appreciate this challenge and recognize climate change as one of the key global threats of our age." -Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and co-author of 2054: A Novel "Climate change adds additional instability to a world already disrupted by strategic competition with China, Russia and Iran, two regional wars, and mounting challenges from new technologies such as AI and cyber. Sherri Goodman shows how the US military is managing these risks and why a bipartisan approach to building a more resilient future supports our national security." -Stephen J. Hadley, former US National Security Advisor "As Secretary of Defense, my job was to protect the nation from all manner of threats. Climate change was one of those threats. But its not just one among a list of many. Its the threat that multiplies all others.

Sherri Goodman gives us a first-hand account of how climate change affects the military and our national security - and the steps we must take to build a more secure future.".