The Geographies of War
The Geographies of War

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 139901594X

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A global history of the geography of war from antiquity to modern and contemporary conflict illustrated and brought to life by histories of inter-state war, geopolitical rivalry, 'hot' and 'cold' war and terrorism. Geography is a basic element in all stages of war including preparation, planning, onset of conflict, waging wars, assessment of results, post-conflict negotiations, analysis and preparation for future conflict. Geography is the vital element in strategy and tactics, and in the spatial context, on land, water and space. It is central to all historical activities from human and animal transport to wind power, coal, seam, oil, jet propulsion atomic weaponry and the threat of cyber conflict. This is essentially a 'modern geography', and not only physical, but political social, economic, cultural and 'human', with emphasis on personal experience. And technical mapping is included - the author's particular expertise - and accessible to specialist and general readers. A global history of the geographies of war in the context of great power geopolitics to local conflicts.

The Geography of Warfare
The Geography of Warfare

Author: Pat O'Sullivan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1317609042

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Originally published in 1983, this broad-ranging book provides penetrating insights on the role of geography in both historic and modern-day warfare. Tactically at a local level, strategically at the campaign level and geopolitically at the global level geographical knowledge is crucial. This book analyses geographical solutions to technical questions of logistics and transportation, the impact of climatology on planning for military action and the understanding of spatial geography for urban and guerrilla wars.

Military Geographies
Military Geographies

Author: Rachel Woodward

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 144439987X

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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.

The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats
The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats

Author: Colin Flint Professor of Geography Pennsylvania State University

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-09-24

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780198036708

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How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression. Topics include terrorism, nationalism, religion, drug wars, water conflicts, diplomacy, peace movements, and post-war reconstruction.

The Geography of War and Peace
The Geography of War and Peace

Author: Colin Flint

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0195162099

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Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand its causes and consequences. This book takes advantage of a diversity of geographic perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression.

The Long War
The Long War

Author: John Morrissey

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0820351040

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Morrissey explores CENTCOM's Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command's grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship, he then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded.

A Research Agenda for Military Geographies
A Research Agenda for Military Geographies

Author: Rachel Woodward

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1786438879

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A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects.

Spaces of Security and Insecurity
Spaces of Security and Insecurity

Author: Dr Alan Ingram

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1409488101

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Drawing on critical geopolitics and related strands of social theory, this book combines new case studies with theoretical and methodological reflections on the geographical analysis of security and insecurity. It brings together a mixture of early career and more established scholars and interprets security and the war on terror across a number of domains, including: international law, religion, migration, development, diaspora, art, nature and social movements. At a time when powerful projects of globalization and security continue to extend their reach over an increasingly wide circle of people and places, the book demonstrates the relevance of critical geographical imaginations to an interrogation of the present.

Commemorative Spaces of the First World War
Commemorative Spaces of the First World War

Author: James Wallis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317309243

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This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical and cultural geography. Reflecting the centennial interest in the conflict, the collection explores the relationships between warfare and space, and pays particular attention to how commemoration is connected to spatial elements of national identity, and processes of heritage and belonging. Venturing beyond military history and memory studies, contributors explore conceptual contributions of geography to analyse the First World War, as well as reflecting upon the imperative for an academic discussion on the War’s centenary. This book explores the War’s impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of the war amongst civilians and often overlooked combatants. It also critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the First World War has been memorialised within ‘official’ spaces, in addition to those overlooked and often undervalued ‘alternative spaces’ of commemoration. This innovative and timely text will be key reading for students and scholars of the First World War, and more broadly in historical and cultural geography, social and cultural history, European history, Heritage Studies, military history and memory studies.