The Strategic (and Neglected) Priority of the Environment – Col. Celestino Perez

The environment is both an obstacle course we must negotiate and a landscape we wish to alter via intervention. Thinking about the environment in these two ways is a priority, especially given that the U.S. military’s standard frame for thinking about strategy (ends, ways, means, and risk) gives the environment rhetorical short shrift. I conclude this episode with an argument that any description of the environment must configure the things in the world (both material and immaterial) in ways that bring to the fore constraints to action and, as a result, allow opportunities for maneuver and intervention to emerge. A simple listing and description of threats, challenges, and dynamics is inadequate. Such things must be configured as it pertains to our specific focus.
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In this English lesson you will learn some of the main words we use to talk about the environment in English.

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17 thoughts on “The Strategic (and Neglected) Priority of the Environment – Col. Celestino Perez”

  1. I start my english class about enviroment this now, and this video help me so much to learning more words. I will recomend for my collegues.

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  2. can you give me your email address. i want to talk with you because my english very bad i want to improve my english i hope to get answer soon . thank you so much

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  3. Hi , thank you for all these explanations.
    clear,helpful and interesting.well done .
    You can add some photos also if it's possible and necessary.It will a good thing to add .
    Good job again.

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