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US Military and the Pacific Environment

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modern war studies series
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pacific world
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US military
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World War II

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  • ISBN 9780700638703
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The environmental consequences of the US military presence from World War II through the end of the US war in Vietnam.

Oceans and deserts, jungles and plains, mountains and rivers, monsoons and blizzards, fertile grounds and diseased lands; all have shaped how strategy and technology has been deployed and developed, and all have supported unexpected victories and decimated even the best-laid plans. Conversely, warfare and militarization have shaped the environment, scarring landscapes, accelerating the global spread of disease, unbalancing ecosystems, and contributing to climate change.

Reflecting on the inextricable, reciprocal, and often surprising relationship between the natural world and human warfare, these essays offer a new perspective on power, knowledge, and the environment in US military history.

The history of US military engagement in the Pacific powerfully demonstrates the profound and diverse impacts that regions’ extraordinarily diverse environments have wrought on warfare. US military action has also had profound impacts in the Pacific, from the nuclear weapons testing programs of the Cold War to the use of chemical defoliants in Vietnam. The contributors to this volume consider how the physical environments of the Pacific shaped the process and outcome of battles and wars, and discuss the effect warfare and other military actions had on these physical environments.
About
Andrew C. Isenberg, the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas, is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History.

Beth Bailey is Foundation Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas.

Paul Landsberg is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the United States Air Force Academy.