Terrain and Tactics

by Patrick Michael O'Sullivan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313279233
• ISBN13: 9780313279232
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"