Climate change pushing armies towards 'Mad Max-like' type of warfare, Defence Forces told

Rescuers search for killed civilians when a Russian Shahed drone, similar to that seen inset right, hit an apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, yesterday. Drones have changed the mode of warfare and the style and way Western armies engage in warfare, says Brendan Flynn. Picture: Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP

All armies are edging towards a “Mad Max-like” era of warfare that relies less on fossil fuels or energy-intensive weapons, members of the Defence Forces have been told.

Academic Brendan Flynn opened a conference attended by senior Defence Forces figures, titled ‘Climate change, security, and defence’, in University College Cork (UCC) with a detailed assessment of the new “western way of war”.