Renewable Energy as Strategic Defence Infrastructure: When Climate Resilience Becomes National Security

A group of retired senior European military officers has urged NATO governments to treat investments in low-carbon, distributed energy as a core element of defence budgeting. The strategic premise is linear: climate change magnifies exposure to coercion, price volatility, and vulnerability of centralized fossil-fuel systems; diversified, distributed and cleaner power reduces those risks and strengthens deterrence by ensuring continuity of operations when civilian grids are stressed or attacked.