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Author | : Colin S. Gray |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135265097 |
Download Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geopolitical conditions influence all strategic behaviour - even when cooperation among different kinds of military power is expected as the norm, action has to be planned and executed in specific physical environments. The geographical world cannot be avoided, and it happens to be 'organized' into land, sea, air and space - and possibly the electromagnetic spectrum including 'cyberspace'. Although the meaning of geography for strategy is a perpetual historical theme, explicit theory on the subject is only one hundred years old. Ideas about the implication of geographical, especially spatial, relationships for political power - which is to say 'geopolitics'- flourished early in the twentieth century. Divided into theory and practice sections, this volume covers the big names such as Mackinder, Mahan and Haushofer, as well as looking back at the vital influence of weather and geography on naval power in the long age of sail (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). It also looks forward to the consequences of the revival of geopolitics in post-Soviet Russia and the new space-based field of "astropolitics".
Author | : Air University Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781079818697 |
Download The Changing Nature of Geostrategy 1900-2000 - The Evolution of a New Paradigm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Military history is rife with examples of operational successes and failures stemming from the geographical environment. However, are twenty-first-century military operations also contingent on the geographical-physical dimension? Major technological advances during the last hundred years have led to a change in the concept of the physical line of operations. These developments led to the gradual contraction of this line, bringing about its near extinction or virtualization. Dr. Paul Springer observes in the book's foreword that "the notion that lines of communication might be made irrelevant to modern warfare revolutionized the concept of geostrategy and led to many modern American military practices, including the ability to base attack forces within the continental United States but still threaten enemy forces worldwide." He adds that "Dr. Tovy's work promises an interesting examination of whether the principles of geostrategy, which have governed human conflict for millennia, might have receded in importance or even ceased to matter at all."
Author | : John Morrissey |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820351040 |
Download The Long War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Morrissey explores CENTCOM's Cold War origins and evolution, before addressing key elements of the command's grand strategy, including its interventionary rationales and use of the law in war. Engaging a wide range of scholarship, he then looks in-depth at the military interventions CENTCOM has spearheaded.
Author | : Geoffrey Sloan |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2017-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135773319 |
Download Geopolitics, Geography and Strategic History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work explains the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China, with particular, though not exclusive, reference to spatial relationships.
Author | : Robert D. Blackwill |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674545982 |
Download War by Other Means Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. The result is a playing field sharply tilting against the United States. “Geoeconomics, the use of economic instruments to advance foreign policy goals, has long been a staple of great-power politics. In this impressive policy manifesto, Blackwill and Harris argue that in recent decades, the United States has tended to neglect this form of statecraft, while China, Russia, and other illiberal states have increasingly employed it to Washington’s disadvantage.” —G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs “A readable and lucid primer...The book defines the extensive topic and opens readers’ eyes to its prevalence throughout history...[Presidential] candidates who care more about protecting American interests would be wise to heed the advice of War by Other Means and take our geoeconomic toolkit more seriously. —Jordan Schneider, Weekly Standard
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2021-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004501207 |
Download Sanctions as War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sanctions as War is the first critical analysis of economic sanctions from a global perspective. Featuring case studies from 11 sanctioned countries and theoretical essays, it will be of immediate interest to those interested in understanding how sanctions became the common sense of American foreign policy.
Author | : Brian Blouet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2020-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000159132 |
Download Global Geostrategy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a new examination of Halford Mackinder’s seminal global geostrategic work, from the perspective of geography, diplomatic history, political science, international relations, imperial history, and the space age. Mackinder was a man ahead of his time. He foresaw many of the key strategic issues that came to dominate the twentieth century. Until the disintegration of the Soviet Union, western defence strategists feared that one power, or alliance, might come to dominate Eurasia. Admiral Mahan discussed this issue in The Problem of Asia (1900) but Mackinder made the most authoritative statement in "The Geographical Pivot of History" (1904). He argued that in the "closed Heart-Land of Euroasia" was a strategically placed region, with great resources, that if controlled by one force could be the basis of a World Empire. James Kurth, in Foreign Affairs, has commented that it has taken two World Wars and the Cold War to prevent Mackinder’s prophecy becoming reality. In World War I and World War II Germany achieved huge territorial gains at the expense of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union. In the former conflict the Russian empire was defeated by Germany but the western powers insisted that the territorial gains made by Germany, at the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, be given up. In World War II Britain and the US gave material support to Stalin’s totalitarian regime to prevent Nazi Germany gaining control of the territory and resources that might have been a basis for world domination. The west, highly conscious of Mackinder’s dictum (1919) that "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland," quickly adopted policies to contain the Soviet Union. History has therefore proved Mackinder’s work to be of vital importance to generations of strategic thinking and he remains a key influence in the new millennium. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies and military history and of geopolitics in particular.
Author | : Patrick O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Geography of Warfare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Middle East Policy Council |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Col Akshaya Handa |
Publisher | : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9382652558 |
Download China's Geo-Strategy and International Behaviour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Geography confers advantages and imposes restrictions on regions. Regional powers over the millennia, leverage the former and aim to overcome the latter to maximize their gains. Such behaviour has been more consistent than political or religious ideologies.This can be seen in turmoil in Pakistan despite religious homogeneity and the failure of the erstwhile USSR – China – Vietnam axis at the height of Cold War despite similar ideology and structures. Likely emergence of China as a global power has placed its neighbours on the horns of dilemma, where some portray it as expansionist and hegemonistic power, others believe it to be an engine for economic rise. The challenge of managing China would require understanding its long term goals and likely means it would employ to achieve them. The process initiated by Deng Xiaoping has made China an economic giant which many believe is Communist only in name. Even while the Third Plenum of November 2013 seeks to strengthen the process, it also has recognized vulnerabilities in society, which have the potential of causing internal collapse. The book aims to understand China’s geographical advantages and restrictions along with its history and economic structure; the themes that emerge are important indicators to understand its Geo-Strategy. China’s international behaviour of the last few decades not only validates these but also points to the means that China is employing to achieve its aim. Important lessons thus emerge for managing partnership with China.