I'm not fan of the American propensity for projecting power with guns, but this article seems to be more than a little bit biased.<p>* The uranium mines mentioned belonged to the DOE.<p>* The link purportedly explaining why we caused desertification in Iraq carries no sources explaining this, other than a vague mention of US military policies (which in most cases are civilian political policies).<p>* The article in language is saying the military is currently the worlds biggest polluter, while mostly touching on issues from the cold war, before there were environmental rules of note.<p>This doesn't even touch on the absolute environmental devastation that the Soviet system left too.<p>In General the Military-Industrial complex is dirty, and left in its wake over the 40 years of the cold war, an environmental mess than will take 80 years to clean up, but that doesn't make any military currently the worlds largest anything, except possibly a waste of money.