LSC MILITARY GEOGRAPHY: From Peace to War

1st Edition

By Eugene Palka , Jr., Francis Galgano

Publication Date: Mar 24, 2005

ISBN:0073536075 / 9780073536071

Language: English

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Imprint: Learning Solutions Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education Dimensions: 9.2 X 7.3 Inches (US)

Summary
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Main Description

Military Geography involves the application of geographic information, tools and technologies to military problems — across the spectrum of military operations from peacetime to wartime. History is replete with examples of the influence of terrain, weather, climate and culture on combat operations during war. Military problems, however, are immutably linked to geography regardless of the context in which they occur. This book retains the wartime focus of “traditional” military geography, yet broadens the scope of the subfield to incorporate a wide range of Stability and Support Operations (SASO), as well as peacetime endeavors. Notwithstanding its purpose, the conduct of any military enterprise is conditioned by the character of the area of operations--the military operating environment. This book focuses on the synergy between geography and military operations wherever they occur.

War

THE WARTIME CONTEXT

1. STREAMS AND THE CIVIL WAR MILITARY LANDSCAPE:The Battle for Island No. 10

2. PROTECTING THE FORCE:Medical Geography and the Buna Campaign, WWII

3. WORLD WAR II IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS:Physical Geographic Challenges in the Battle for Attu

4. PELELIU:Geographic Complications of Operation Stalemate

5. AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE:The Turning Movement at Inchon

6. OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: Geographic Considerations for Desert Warfare

Stability and Support Operations

LSC MILITARY GEOGRAPHY: From Peace to War

War

THE WARTIME CONTEXT

1. STREAMS AND THE CIVIL WAR MILITARY LANDSCAPE:The Battle for Island No. 10

2. PROTECTING THE FORCE:Medical Geography and the Buna Campaign, WWII

3. WORLD WAR II IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS:Physical Geographic Challenges in the Battle for Attu

4. PELELIU:Geographic Complications of Operation Stalemate

5. AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE:The Turning Movement at Inchon

6. OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: Geographic Considerations for Desert Warfare

Stability and Support Operations

THE SASO CONTEXT

7. DECADES OF INSTABILITY AND UNCERTAINTY:Mission Diversity in the SASO Environment

8. THE GEOGRAPHY OF HAZARD ANALYSIS:Disaster Management and the Military

9. INTRA-STATE INTERVENTION AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY:The Organisations des Nations Unities au Congo

10. THE CASE OF BOSNIA:Military and Political Geography in SASO

11. KOSOVO:Spaces of Unintended Consequences

12. OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM:The Military Geographic Challenges of Afghanistan

Peace

THE PEACETIME CONTEXT

13. MANNING THE FORCE: Geographical Perspectives on Recruiting

14. TRAINING THE FORCE:Bioclimatological Considerations for Military Basic Training

15. TRAINING A GLOBAL FORCE: Sustaining Army Land for Readiness in the 21st Century

16. U.S. ARMY TRAINING AND TESTING LANDS:An Ecoregional Framework for Assessment

17. BASE CLOSURES:The Post-Cold War U.S. Military Landscape

18. VERDUN FRANCE:Examining the Effects of Warfare on the Physical Landscape

Conclusion

Glossary of Common Military Terms

About the Editors and Authors