Military Waste

Author : Joshua O. Reno
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520316027

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Military Waste by Joshua O. Reno Pdf

World War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth orbit. In Military Waste, Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of American war preparation through an examination of the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using ethnographic and archival research, Reno demonstrates how obsolete military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with warfare. Using a broad swath of examples—from excess planes, ships, and space debris that fall into civilian hands, to the dispossessed and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases, to the militarized masculinities of mass shooters—Military Waste reveals the unexpected and open-ended relationships that non-combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently ready for war.

Author : Joshua Reno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Military supplies
ISBN : LCCN:2019980770

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Military Waste by Joshua Reno Pdf

"World War III never happened, and yet material evidence of this contest is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, orbiting Earth. Military Waste examines the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. They encounter risks and opportunities that manifest whether or not any specific war ever takes place, questioning what led to the largest military the world has ever seen and pondering what will become of its remains"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Shiloh R. Krupar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0816676380

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Hot Spotter's Report by Shiloh R. Krupar Pdf

Using empirical research, creative nonfiction, and fictional satire, Hot Spotter's Report examines how the biopolitics of war promotes the idea of a postmilitary and postnuclear world, naturalizing toxicity and limiting human relations with the past and the land. Exposing "hot spots" of contamination, in part by satirizing government reports, this book seeks to cultivate irreverence, controversy, coalitional possibility, and ethical responses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000090160049

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The Army Fights Waste by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.)
ISBN : UCAL:C3125534

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Improving Military Solid Waste Management by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126813448

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Nuclear Regulation by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Beth Linker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226482552

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War's Waste by Beth Linker Pdf

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper social and cultural response to the wounded, swiftly returning injured combatants to their civilian lives. But this was not always the case, as Beth Linker reveals in her provocative new book, War’s Waste. Linker explains how, before entering World War I, the United States sought a way to avoid the enormous cost of providing injured soldiers with pensions, which it had done since the Revolutionary War. Emboldened by their faith in the new social and medical sciences, reformers pushed rehabilitation as a means to “rebuild” disabled soldiers, relieving the nation of a monetary burden and easing the decision to enter the Great War. Linker’s narrative moves from the professional development of orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists to the curative workshops, or hospital spaces where disabled soldiers learned how to repair automobiles as well as their own artificial limbs. The story culminates in the postwar establishment of the Veterans Administration, one of the greatest legacies to come out of the First World War.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Hazardous wastes
ISBN : UOM:39015048858313

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Hazardous Waste by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Peter Thorsheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099357

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Waste into Weapons by Peter Thorsheim Pdf

During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of many essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease aid from the United States, and even to uncover foreign intelligence. However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it consumed many items that would never have been destroyed under normal circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309477352

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Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Army Science and Technology,Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions Pdf

The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.

Author : Joshua Reno
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780520288942

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Waste Away by Joshua Reno Pdf

Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer at a large, transnational landfill on the outskirts of Detroit, the book argues that waste management helps our possessions and dwellings to last by removing the transient materials they shed and sending them elsewhere. Ethnography conducted with waste workers shows how they conceal and contain other people’s wastes, all while negotiating the filth of their occupation, holding on to middle-class aspirations, and occasionally scavenging worthwhile stuff from the trash. Waste Away also traces the circumstances that led one community to host two landfills and made Michigan a leading importer of foreign waste. Focusing on local activists opposed to the transnational waste trade with Canada, the book’s ethnography analyzes their attempts to politicize the removal of waste out of sight that many take for granted. Documenting these different ways of relating to the management of North American rubbish, Waste Away demonstrates how the landfills we create remake us in turn, often behind our backs and beneath our notice.

Author : United States. Engineers Corps (Army)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010467409

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Engineering Manual for Military Construction by United States. Engineers Corps (Army) Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309217583

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Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan by Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan Pdf

Many veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have health problems they believe are related to their exposure to the smoke from the burning of waste in open-air "burn pits" on military bases. Particular controversy surrounds the burn pit used to dispose of solid waste at Joint Base Balad in Iraq, which burned up to 200 tons of waste per day in 2007. The Department of Veterans Affairs asked the IOM to form a committee to determine the long-term health effects from exposure to these burn pits. Insufficient evidence prevented the IOM committee from developing firm conclusions. This report, therefore, recommends that, along with more efficient data-gathering methods, a study be conducted that would evaluate the health status of service members from their time of deployment over many years to determine their incidence of chronic diseases.

Author : Lewis Page
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:32000004554020

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Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Lewis Page Pdf

Lewis Page's cover story in Prospect on the military's most useless and expensive hardware set off a firestorm of controversy, back pedalling, and accusations. In this irreverent and provocative book, he gives us the full story: how British soldiers are sent off to war with some of the worst guns in the trade, how the MOD keeps financing useless toys (at huge expense to taxpayers), and how decisions seem to be made with an eye, above all, for the interests of British Aerospace. He shows how politicians and the top brass are hopelessly entrenched in yesterday's wars and pouring their talents and energies into making sure that money is wasted right, left and centre. Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs does for the military what Not on the Label did for supermarkets - it takes us behind the scenes and exposes the real ingredients whipped up in the name of defence.

Author : William Thomas Lee
Publisher : Aei Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 0844739170

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CIA Estimates of Soviet Military Expenditures by William Thomas Lee Pdf