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Once it was Army uniforms that were green. Now it's the whole Pentagon.   Global warming is a major national security issue, according to President Obama and his hand-picked general who now run the Pentagon.   We still have no strategy to deal with the threats from the Islamic State, but our troops now have a Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Over 7,000 bases are under orders to factor-in global warming in all that they do. Evidently the climate impact must be considered before America's troops can even twitch a muscle.    , but .  Military budgets suffer, but the Navy converts its ships to more-expensive and inefficient green fuels. The same thing for naval aviation.   As commander-in-chief, Barack Obama is transforming our troops from war fighters into guardians of the green.   Find more insights online at