The Pentagon has stepped up its PR offensive designed to project the image of a greener military.

At first blush it would seem that the notion of an environmentally friendly military is a contradiction in terms. After all, isn't one of the primary missions of the U.S. military to protect the "American way of life" by assuring access to foreign oil supplies, by force if necessary?

Wouldn't a truly green military imply a change in missions, so that the push for "global reach" meant to enable interventions all over the world against enemies real or imagined is considerably scaled back?

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