Preface: playing power games with a threat multiplier -- The battle for net zero: Army National Training Center Fort Irwin -- Voices from the past, premonitions of the future: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake -- Microgrids and asymmetrical infrastructure: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar -- Good statutes make good stewards: San Clemente Island Range Complex -- The desert tortoise gets an address change: Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms -- A river runs through it: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"Environmental stewardship is law on installations throughout the United States, but a few bases in Southern California have taken a more comprehensive approach--one in which energy security and protection of threatened and endangered species are embedded in the practice of national defense. Unlikely Ally takes us through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense's scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars"-- Publisher's description.
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