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Terrain and Tactics (Hardcover)
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Terrain and Tactics (Hardcover)
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Throughout history, wars have been invariably fought over the
control of territory. While political geography addresses the
causes of such conflicts, military geography consists of the use of
geographical knowledge to describe and analyze the deployment of
armed forces. In this work, Patrick O'Sullivan offers an academic
and impersonal study of military geography, weighing the balance of
advantage for combatants in different geographic settings. He fully
explores the effect of geographical circumstances on the outcome of
violent conflict, and examines the lessons learned from recent wars
about the effects of global position and environmental conditions
on the interplay of geostrategy, tactical decisions, and results.
The study begins with a look at the global variety of physical
habitats and their human occupation, as well as a survey of the
geography of war since 1945 including the current geography of
conflict. A geographical analysis of selected ancient and modern
battles follows, out of which O'Sullivan characterizes classical
tactical ploys. A broad examination of modern weapons, tactics, and
the required appreciation of the battlefield form the central
portion of the book, with two particular
topics--guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations and warfare on urban
terrain--receiving extensive treatment. The volume concludes by
drawing together political geography, strategy, and tactics in a
description of the urban-based British Army/IRA conflict, and with
an examination of the geographical aptitudes and attitudes of
soldiers. This unique work will be an important source for courses
in military geography, history, and tactics, and a valuable
addition to college and university libraries.
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