Chad M. Briggs is Strategy Director at GlobalInt LLC and an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a Fulbright professor in Budapest and Berlin, a senior advisor to the US Department of Energy, and Minerva Chair and Professor of Energy and Environmental Security at the Air University of the US Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base. Dr Briggs specializes in the use of scientific information in environmental and security policy. In recent years he has been a defense and security consultant in Kosovo, and cooperates with the Ukrainian Army on hybrid war strategies.

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Inside view of how and why militaries/intelligence agencies plan for environmental disasters, for practitioners, policymakers and scholars.

Résumé
This book details intelligence and military planning methods for anticipating environmental and security-related disasters. It offers an inside view of planning processes in the US government using scenarios and simulations. With a focus on innovative solutions, it is invaluable for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, and scholars.

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Towards disaster security; 2. Environmental disasters and risk assessment; 3. Scenario planning and complex scenario approach; 4. From Lima to New York; 5. From Pearl Harbor to Pearl Harbor; 6. Beyond scenarios: wargames, simulations, and net assessment; 7. Hybrid disasters and security; 8. Obstacles and opportunities; 9. Planning for the uncertain future; Bibliography; Index.