Modern military geography / edited by Francis A. Galgano, Eugene J. Palka.

Contributor(s): Galgano, Francis A. (Francis Anthony) | Palka, Eugene JosephMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2011Description: xiii, 437 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: 9780415870948 (hc : acidfree paper); 0415870941 (hc : acidfree paper); 9780415870955 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 041587095X (pbk. : acidfree paper); 9780203844397 (ebook); 0203844394 (ebook)Subject(s): Military geography | Military geography -- HistoryDDC classification: 355.4/7 LOC classification: UA990 | .M64 2011
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction to military geography: Military geography in the US: history, scope, and recent developments / Eugene J. Palka ; Military science for the non-professional / Francis A. Galgano -- An introduction to geography for non-geographers / Francis A. Galgano ; Environmental security: a growing force in regional stability / Kent Hughes Butts ; The environment and regional security: a framework for analysis / Amy Richmond Krakowka ; Climate change and potential regional instability in the Arctic / Eugene J. Palka ; The legacy of federal military lands in the US: a geographic retrospective / William W. Doe III -- Part 2. Historical and operational military geography: Streams and military landscape / Francis A. Galgano ; Methuen's Northern Cape Campaign, Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Hendrik A. P. Smit ; The battle for Attu: physical geographic challenges of the Aleutian Campaign of World War II / Eugene J. Palka ; Protecting the force: medical geography and the Buna-Gona Campaign / Eugene J. Palka and Francis A. Galgano ; The geography of amphibious warfare / Francis A. Galgano ; Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-5: epitomizing Yugoslavia's bloody collapse / Steven Oluic ; Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom and military geographic challenges / Eugene J. Palka ; Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom: a military geography / Eugene J. Palka, Francis A. Galgano, and Mark W. Corson -- Part 3. Applied military geography: Military lands as spatial analogs for a twenty-first-century Army: natural environments for testing and training / William W. Doe III ; Aeolian processes and military operations / Joseph P. Henderson ; Infrastructure vulnerability in a catastrophic CSZ event and implications on disaster response for the Oregon coast / Wiley C. Thompson ; Khe Sanh, Vietnam: examining the long-term impacts of warfare on the physical landscape / Joseph P. Hupy ; Napoleonic know-how for stability operations / Douglas E. Batson ; Identicide in Sarajevo: the destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Sarah Jane Meharg ; 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 / Clifton W. Pannell ; Ungoverned space and effective sovereignty in the Global War on Terror: western Pakistan / Francis A. Galgano.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Introduction to military geography: Military geography in the US: history, scope, and recent developments / Eugene J. Palka ; Military science for the non-professional / Francis A. Galgano -- An introduction to geography for non-geographers / Francis A. Galgano ; Environmental security: a growing force in regional stability / Kent Hughes Butts ; The environment and regional security: a framework for analysis / Amy Richmond Krakowka ; Climate change and potential regional instability in the Arctic / Eugene J. Palka ; The legacy of federal military lands in the US: a geographic retrospective / William W. Doe III -- Part 2. Historical and operational military geography: Streams and military landscape / Francis A. Galgano ; Methuen's Northern Cape Campaign, Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Hendrik A. P. Smit ; The battle for Attu: physical geographic challenges of the Aleutian Campaign of World War II / Eugene J. Palka ; Protecting the force: medical geography and the Buna-Gona Campaign / Eugene J. Palka and Francis A. Galgano ; The geography of amphibious warfare / Francis A. Galgano ; Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-5: epitomizing Yugoslavia's bloody collapse / Steven Oluic ; Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom and military geographic challenges / Eugene J. Palka ; Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom: a military geography / Eugene J. Palka, Francis A. Galgano, and Mark W. Corson -- Part 3. Applied military geography: Military lands as spatial analogs for a twenty-first-century Army: natural environments for testing and training / William W. Doe III ; Aeolian processes and military operations / Joseph P. Henderson ; Infrastructure vulnerability in a catastrophic CSZ event and implications on disaster response for the Oregon coast / Wiley C. Thompson ; Khe Sanh, Vietnam: examining the long-term impacts of warfare on the physical landscape / Joseph P. Hupy ; Napoleonic know-how for stability operations / Douglas E. Batson ; Identicide in Sarajevo: the destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Sarah Jane Meharg ; 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 / Clifton W. Pannell ; Ungoverned space and effective sovereignty in the Global War on Terror: western Pakistan / Francis A. Galgano.

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