ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how accelerating climate change is amplifying the military role in foreign humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR). It argues that it is imperative to encourage and indeed expand a military-centred HADR collaboration in order to better promote and protect human security. The collaborative frameworks that should be institutionalized are those between the military and civil-society HADR networks and among the American and other global militaries. The non-military capacity to respond to major disasters is limited, and thus coping with increasingly frequent and large-scale disasters poses a challenge. The military role in HADR has a very long history, with own-country deployments dating back to ancient times. A powerful current in the US military is clearly acting productively in the face of an unprecedented and collective crisis that could upend the Oslo guidelines and other common-sense ideas on HADR.
