MILITARY GEOGRAPHY: FROM PEACE TO WAR/E.J. PALKA & F.A. GALGANO

Abstract

There has always been a long-standing relationship between Geography and the
military. In the book Military Geography: from Peace to War, Military Geography
is defined as the “application of geographic information, tools and techniques to
military problems”. In the international arena, Military Geography enjoys
recognition as a formal sub-discipline with its own speciality group within the
Association of American Geographers. Military Geography: from Peace to War is a
welcome addition to a rather sparse literature collection of this applied subdiscipline
of Geography.
The book starts with an explanation of the scope of Military Geography that is
extremely useful for researchers and students of Military Geography. This
explanation enables one to identify the context of the operation under discussion
(peacetime, stability and support operations (SASO), or war), the scale of the
operation (strategic, operational or tactical), the approach used to study it
(systematic, topical or regional) and the perspective of the study (applied and/or
historical).