This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental degradation. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats are evaluated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat.

1. The Human Environment 2. Temperate Regions 3. Tropical Regions 4. Desert Regions 5. Arctic Regions 6. Islands 7. The Ocean 8. The Global Ecology