How can anthropological research help us to understand the unevenly distributed impacts of overlapping state security and environmental conservation projects? In this talk, Dr. Laungaramsri situates present day political and socioecological relations in Thailand within the specific history of the Cold War ideology of wilderness thinking, authoritarian politics, and neoliberal conservation. Dr. Laungaramsri explores how these intersecting political and social formations have generated a distinctly “green militarization” and accompanying violent conservation practices.