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Washington Post: As wildfires grow, militaries are torn between combat, climate change

In the article, the Washington Post journalist Michael Birnbaum describes the actions of firefighters, members of the rescue forces and the Slovenian Armed Forces during the big fire in July that raged in the Goriska Karst.

The American journalist published an extensive article on the online edition of the Washington Post with the title As wildfires grow, militaries are torn between combat, climate change.

In the article, the journalist describes in more details how members of the rescue forces and the Slovenian Armed Forces fought against the fire that raged between the 15th and 26th of July this year in the Goriska Karst. Together with his interlocutors, among them the Minister of Defense Marjan Šarc and the Chief of the General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces, Major General Robert Glavaš, he points out the necessity of adapting the armies around the world to the unconventional tasks that are brought about by climate change.