Geography, Technology and War
Author | : John Pryor |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : John Pryor |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : John H. Pryor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1992-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521428927 |
A study of the technological limitations of maritime traffic in the Mediterranean, seen in conjunction with the geographical conditions within which it operated.
Author | : John H. Pryor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Mediterranean Region |
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Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : Sarah Kristina Danielsson |
Publisher | : Brill Schoningh |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Geopolitics |
ISBN | : 9783506783776 |
Papers from a conference held 2015 at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
Author | : John M. Collins |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2012-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781478267317 |
A major American news magazine in the spring of 1997 included an article about the effects of new technology on national defense. It observed that, "In future wars, knowledge may be more important than terrain," but geography still exerts enormous influence on military operations, war, and security as it has throughout history.
Author | : Francis Galgano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2012-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136919805 |
This book of contributed chapters by subject matter expertly provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographer’s 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.
Author | : Max Boot |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2006-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101216832 |
A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise and fall of empires. War Made New begins with the Gunpowder Revolution and explains warfare's evolution from ritualistic, drawn-out engagements to much deadlier events, precipitating the rise of the modern nation-state. He next explores the triumph of steel and steam during the Industrial Revolution, showing how it powered the spread of European colonial empires. Moving into the twentieth century and the Second Industrial Revolution, Boot examines three critical clashes of World War II to illustrate how new technology such as the tank, radio, and airplane ushered in terrifying new forms of warfare and the rise of centralized, and even totalitarian, world powers. Finally, Boot focuses on the Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iraq War—arguing that even as cutting-edge technologies have made America the greatest military power in world history, advanced communications systems have allowed decentralized, "irregular" forces to become an increasingly significant threat.
Author | : Pat O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2014-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317609050 |
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.
Author | : Fraser MacDonald |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317128834 |
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.