Colonel Raftery posits nuclear energy must have a role
in America’s future energy policy; however, the affects
of the Three Mile Island incident and the devastating de-
struction of the Fuchashima Daiichi plant as a result of
the March 2011 Tsunami, presents an appetite suppres-
sant for policy makers to pursue an increased nuclear role
as part of a future national energy strategy.
In the chapter titled, “Sustainability and National
Security Military Lands Management: The Ecological
Foundation of Sustainability,” Dr. Bill Doe, a widely pub-
lished author on the issue of military land management,
discusses the Army’s historical roots of land stewardship
and refers to the ‘ecology of place’ as the organizing prin-
ciple of sustainability. Dr. Doe opines military proper-
ties have become ‘islands of diversity’ supporting a wide
range of threatened and endangered species in habitats as
disparate as the Army’s current and future battle space
Dr. Marie Johnson and Lieutenant Colonel Mark
Smith’s “Promoting a Sustainability Ethic in Future Army
Leaders at West Point” builds on the Army Environmen-
tal Strategy of developing a “triple bottom line” of Mis-
sion, Environment and Community in order to instill this
culture in future Army officers at the Military Academy.
Both Johnson and Smith argue the Army is the perfect
choice to develop a sustainability ethos and to serve as
an innovator for new technologies and practices. Johnson
and Smith assert the Army’s global presence and ability
to enforce regulations through a chain of command will
enable the development of new practices at a faster rate
than in civilian agencies. Their work at West Point will
serve to develop a new breed of officer with sound envi-
ronmental practices to serve the Army.
Lieutenant Colonel Joe Knott and Monica Slade of the
Army National Guard address, “Army National Guard
and Sustainability Initiatives.” Knott and Slade opine the
National Guard is a community based operational force
that must co-exist environmentally with the communi-
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