Modern Military Geography

Herausgeber: Galgano, Francis; Palka, Eugene J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographer's perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9780415870955
• ISBN-10: 041587095X
• Artikelnr.: 29923858

Autorenporträt

Francis A. Galgano is a former Army officer, an Associate Professor of Geography, and the Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at Villanova University Eugene J. Palka is a Colonel and Director of Student-Athlete Academic Services at Eastern Kentucky University . He is the former Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction to Military Geography 1. Military Geography in the
United States: History, Scope, and Recent Developments 2. Military Science
for the Non-Professional 3. An Introduction to Geography for
Non-Geographers 4. Environmental Security: A Growing Force in Regional
Stability 5. The Environment and Regional Security: A Framework for
Analysis 6. Climate Change and Potential Regional Instability in the Arctic
7. The Legacy of Federal Military Lands in the U.S.: A Geographical
Retrospective Part II: Historical and Operational Military Geography 8.
Streams and Military Landscape 9. Methuen's Northern Cape Campaign, Anglo
Boer War, 1899 - 1902 10.The Battle for Attu: Physical Geographic
Challenges of the Aleutian Campaign of WW II 11. Protecting the Force:
Medical Geography and the Buna-Gona Campaign 12. The Geography of
Amphibious Warfare 13. Bosnia & Herzegovina 1992-1995- Epitomizing
Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse 14. Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom
and Military Geographic Challenges 15.Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A
Military Geography Part III: Applied Military Geography 16. Military Lands
as Spatial Analogs for a 21st Century Army: Natural Environments for
Testing and Training 17.Aeolian Processes and Military Operations 18.
Infrastructure Vulnerability in a Catastrophic CSZ Event and Implications
on Disaster Response for the Oregon Coast 19. Khe Sanh, Vietnam: Examining
the Long-Term Impacts of Warfare on the Physical Landscape 20.Napoleonic
Know-How for Stability Operations 21. Identicide in Sarajevo: The
Destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and
Herzegovina 22. Geopolitics and the Dragon's Advance: An Exploration of the
Strategy and Reality of China's Growing Economic and Military Power and its
Effect upon Taiwan 23. Ungoverned Space and Effective Sovereignty in the
Global War on Terror: Western Pakistan