Security can no longer be confined to national security threats or international relations alone. Off-late, the world over environmental changes has now also been listed as security threats. The report believed that changing environmental conditions may affect warfighting capability, the existing defence works, and elaborate communication infrastructure. The glacial melt in areas where the Indian military operates would affect the campaign season, logistics, surface mobility and weaponry platforms. The workshop concluded that that environment security is a crucial element of national threat matrix with other elements being military security, economic security, resource security, and energy security.

Source: dna November 10, 2017 06:18 UTC