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Article Excerpt
The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. xvii + 298 pages. ISBN: 1589011538 $29.95 cloth. Robert E Durant. 2007.
Why has the end of the Cold War not ushered in a new era of "greening" within the U.S. military? How, in particular, has the military succeeded at resisting a "beyond compliance" ethic of environmental and natural resource (ENR) protection, amid unprecedented political pressure and dramatic changes to strategy? These questions form the crux of this excellent new book by Durant.
The meshing of ENR values with national security needs--cemented by requirements to arrest the Pentagon's toxic legacy, reduce long-term remediation costs, and secure procurement of new environmentally friendly weapons platforms--was an idea whose time had come with the end of the Cold War. Accordingly, several presidents, Congress, state regulators, and ENR activists launched "sustained, persistent, and multifaceted" offensives aimed at imposing on the military a new ethic of accountability, transparency, and proactive compliance as an...
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