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.

气候变化越来越多地塑造安全叙事，包括军事战略。在将气候变化视为一个安全问题的同时，军方在这种话语和实践中的作用变得至关重要，因为它是一个安全参与者。然而，气候变化、安全和军事之间的相互关系被不同国家以不同的方式设想和处理。在不同的州内，这种三角关系受具有不同实际/政策影响的进程的指导。虽然“证券化”通常被用来解释气候安全，但“气候化”等其他过程也具有重要意义，其中安全实践被气候化。印度军方也一直在处理气候变化对安全的影响，但通过使用不同于西方国家的方法，这一直是此类分析中通常关注的焦点。在本文中，气候化的框架被用来分析三角关系，使用印度军队的案例研究——通过将气候化行动分类为象征性、战略性、预防性和变革性。