Modern Military Geography [Paperback]

This book of contributed chapters by subject matter expertly provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographers 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.

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. Methuens 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 Yugoslavias Bloody Collapse 14. Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom and Military Geographic Challenges 15.Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Military Geography Part III:lC9