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This book is not about war, nor is it a history of war. Avoiding the shock and awe of wartime images, it explores the contemporary spatial configurations of power camouflaged in the infrastructures, environments, and scales of military operations. Instead of wartime highs, this book starts with drawdown lows, when demobilization and decommissioning morph into realignment and prepositioning. It is in this transitional milieu that the full material magnitudes and geographic entanglements of contemporary militarism are laid bare. Through this perpetual cycle of build up and breakdown, the U.S. Department of Defense-the single largest developer, landowner, equipment contractor, and energy consumer in the world-has engineered a planetary assemblage of "operational environments" in which militarized, demilitarized, and non-militarized landscapes are increasingly inextricable.

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"Bélanger and Arroyo recalibrate how we understand relations of military and urban space, expertly linking disparate and often invisible logics and landscapes. A graphical masterpiece, Ecologies of Power is essential reading for anyone interested in how the world is being made." -Charlie Hailey, author of Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

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Pierre Bélanger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University´s Graduate School of Design. Alexander Arroyo is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley.

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