FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Climate Change as a National Security Concern -- 2 Climate Change, Vulnerability, and National Security: A Conceptual Framework -- 3 Potentially Disruptive Climate Events -- 4 How Climate Events Can Lead to Social and Political Stresses -- 5 Climate Events and National Security Outcomes -- 6 Methods for Assessing National Security Threats -- References -- Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies -- Appendix B: Briefings Received by the Committee -- Appendix C: Method for Developing Figure 3-1 -- Appendix D: Statistical Methods for Assessing Probabilities of Extreme Events -- Appendix E: Foundations for Monitoring Climate-Security Connections.