engleski

Military Cartography

This important collection underlines a key element in military cartography, its range, its variety, and the two related, but different directions of causality and consequence, that from the military to cartography, and that from cartography to the military. The classifications of the various links can then be presented in terms of a series of grids or matrices. Principally, there are those of geography, chronology and types of conflict and cartography, although that does not exhaust the situation for we are confronted with palimpsests of both war and cartography. The typology given excludes for example personnel. The key typology, however, is that imposed by the needs of war, notably tactical, operational, strategic, geopolitical, reportage and propaganda ; and with the land, sea, air typology offering crucial variations.

military cartography ; military history ; geopolitics ; geography of war

nije evidentirano