Climate change is increasingly shaping security narratives, including military strategy. While considering climate change a security issue, the military's role in this discourse and praxis becomes critical as a security actor. However, the interrelationships between climate change, security and the military are conceived and approached by different states diversely. Within different states, this triangular relationship is guided by processes with varied practical/policy implications. While 'securitization' has generally been used to explain climate security, other processes such as 'climatization' have assumed significance, wherein security practices are climatized. The Indian military too has been engaging with security implications of climate change, but by using approaches distinct from Western states, which have been the usual focus in such analyses. In this paper, the framework of climatization is used to analyse the triangular relationship, using the case study of the Indian military-by categorizing climatizing moves as symbolic, strategic, precautionary and transformative.
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