Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1574881809
An examination of geography's critical effects on battles throughout the ages
Author : Francis Galgano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136919805
This book of contributed chapters by subject matter expertly provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographer’s perspective. Factors of geography have had a compelling influence on battles and campaigns throughout history; however, geography and military affairs have gained heightened attention during the past two decades, and military geography is the discipline best situated to explain them. Hence, the premise of this book and its contents are founded on the principle that geographical knowledge of space, place, people, and scale provide essential insights into contemporary security issues and promotes the idea that such insight is critical to understanding and managing significant military problems at local, regional, and global scales.
Author : Eugene Joseph Palka
Publisher : Learning Solutions
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : History
ISBN :
The conduct of any military enterprise is conditioned by the character of the area of operations - the military operating environment. The book focuses on the synergy between georgraphy and military operations wherever they occur.
Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144439987X
Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. Sets a new agenda for the study of military geography with its critical analysis of the ways in which military control over space is legitimized. Explores the ways in which militarism and military activities control development, the use of space and our understanding of place. Focuses on military lands, establishments and personnel in contemporary peacetime settings. Uses examples from Europe, North America and Australasia. Draws on original research into the mechanisms by which the British government manages the defence estate. Illustrated with maps, plans and other figures.
Author : Thomas Miller Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge : University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Smallman-Raynor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191513459
Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike. This book examines the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with past wars. It addresses an intrinsically geographical question: how are the spatial dynamics of epidemics influenced by military operations and the directives of war? The term historical geography in the title indicates the authors' primary concern with qualitative analyses of archival source materials over a 150-year time period from 1850, and this is combined with quantitative analyses less frequently associated with historical studies. Written from the viewpoints of historical geography, epidemiology, and spatial analysis, this book examines in four parts the historical occurrence and geographical spread of infectious diseases in association with wars. Part I: War and Disease, surveys war-disease associations from early times to 1850. Part II: Temporal Trends studies time trends since 1850. Part III: A Regional Pattern of War Epidemics, examines grand themes in the war-disease complex. Part IV: Prospects, considers a series of war-related issues of epidemiological significance in the twenty-first century.
Author : Johann Georg Heck
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Thousands of illustrations from 19th-century archive: weapons, fortifications, fighting vessels, Egyptian costumes, mummies, Roman coins, medieval armor, much more.
Author : Elri Liebenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319252445
This volume gathers 19 papers first presented at the 5th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, which took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium on 2-5 December 2014. The overall conference theme was 'Cartography in Times of War and Peace', but preference was given to papers dealing with the military cartography of the First World War (1914-1918). The papers are classified by period and regional sub-theme, i.e. Military Cartography from the 18th to the 20th century; WW I Cartography in Belgium, Central Europe, etc.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : Eric Heginbotham
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0833082272
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography affect outcomes. China is capable of challenging U.S. military dominance on its immediate periphery—and its reach is likely to grow in the years ahead.
