The Role of the Military in Protecting the World's Water Resources
Arthur L Bradshaw, Dr Kent H Butts, Mr Brian D Smith
Study by the US Army War College, Center for Strategic Leadership
" 'The Role of Militaries in Protecting the Environmental Quality of the World’s Bodies of Water' was a workshop hosted and conducted by the Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) of the U.S. Army War College and sponsored by the Principal Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security) on 3-5 November 1999. The workshop was coordinated with UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The objective of the workshop was to explore the use of the military as an instrument of engagement in the environmental security context of assessing and protecting the environmental quality of the world’s bodies of water. "