In The Greening of the U.S.Military, Robert F. Durant uncovers the epic and ongoing struggle to
build an environmentally sensitive culture within the post-Cold War military. Through over 100
interviews and thousands of pages of documents, reports, and trade newsletter accounts, he offers a
telling tale of political, bureaucratic, and intergovernmental combat over the pace, scope, and
methods of applying environmental and natural resource laws while ensuring military readiness. He
then discerns from these clashes over principle, competing values, and narrow self-interest a
theoretical framework for studying and understanding organizational change in public
organizations. Durant's polity-centered perspective and arguments will evoke needed scrutiny,
debate, and dialogue over these issues in environmental, military, policymaking, and academic
circles.