Understanding Geography and War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Geography and War write by Steve Pickering. This book was released on 2016-11-23. Understanding Geography and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment. Stops on the way will include critical geopolitics, religious geopolitics, popular geopolitics, feminist geopolitics, and, newest of all, critical quantitative geopolitics. More importantly, it uncovers new areas of research for the next generation of researchers, showing how critical and quantitative methods can be applied to look at how geography and war relate to diverse areas such as disease, sport, dispossession, and immigration.
The Geography of Warfare
The Geography of Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography of Warfare write by Pat O'Sullivan. This book was released on 2014-10-03. The Geography of Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Geography for Professionals and the Public
Military Geography for Professionals and the Public - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Military Geography for Professionals and the Public write by John M. Collins. This book was released on 1998. Military Geography for Professionals and the Public available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of geography's critical effects on battles throughout the ages
The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats
The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats write by Colin Flint Professor of Geography Pennsylvania State University. This book was released on 2004-09-24. The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Revenge of Geography
The Revenge of Geography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revenge of Geography write by Robert D. Kaplan. This book was released on 2013-09-10. The Revenge of Geography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world. In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. The Russian steppe’s pitiless climate and limited vegetation bred hard and cruel men bent on destruction, for example, while Nazi geopoliticians distorted geopolitics entirely, calculating that space on the globe used by the British Empire and the Soviet Union could be swallowed by a greater German homeland. Kaplan then applies the lessons learned to the present crises in Europe, Russia, China, the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, Iran, and the Arab Middle East. The result is a holistic interpretation of the next cycle of conflict throughout Eurasia. Remarkably, the future can be understood in the context of temperature, land allotment, and other physical certainties: China, able to feed only 23 percent of its people from land that is only 7 percent arable, has sought energy, minerals, and metals from such brutal regimes as Burma, Iran, and Zimbabwe, putting it in moral conflict with the United States. Afghanistan’s porous borders will keep it the principal invasion route into India, and a vital rear base for Pakistan, India’s main enemy. Iran will exploit the advantage of being the only country that straddles both energy-producing areas of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Finally, Kaplan posits that the United States might rue engaging in far-flung conflicts with Iraq and Afghanistan rather than tending to its direct neighbor Mexico, which is on the verge of becoming a semifailed state due to drug cartel carnage. A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century’s looming cataclysms.
