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Geografia della guerra / di Patrick O'Sullivan e Jesse W. Miller jr. ; edizione italiana a cura di Gisella Cortesi
| Geografia della guerra / di Patrick O'Sullivan e Jesse W. Miller jr. ; edizione italiana a cura di Gisella Cortesi |
| Autore | O'SULLIVAN, Patrick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano, : Angeli, 1985 |
| Descrizione fisica | 204 p. ; 22 cm |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MILLER, Jesse W. |
| Collana | Geografia e società |
| Soggetto topico | Geografia militare |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-990001337580203316 |
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| Milano, : Angeli, 1985 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / edited by Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole
| Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / edited by Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Military geography - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4411-2560-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Introduction: Beneath the Camouflage: Revealing Militarized Landscapes; PART I: INHABITING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 1 Military Landscapes / Militære Landskap: The Military Landscape Photography of Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén; 2 Fighting in 'Dante's Inferno': Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864; PART II: COEXISTENT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LANDSCAPES; 3 Coexistent Landscapes: Military Integration and Civilian Fragmentation
4 The Shoeburyness Complex: Military Spatial Production and the Problem of the Civilian Body5 A Picturesque Ruin? Landscapes of Loss at Tyneham and the Epynt; PART III: THE SURPRISING NATURE OF MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 6 Militarization, Conservation and US Base Transformations; 7 A Fairy (Shrimp) Tale of Military Environmentalism: The 'Greening' of Salisbury Plain; 8 The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History: The Case of the Korean DMZ; PART IV: COMMEMORATING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 9 Addressing the Nature of Gettysburg: 'Addition and Detraction' in Preserving an American Shrine 10 Fragmented Histories: Science, Environment and Monument Building at the Trinity Site, 1945-199511 Ruins, Relics and Restoration: The Afterlife of World War Two American Airfields in England, 1945-2005; Afterword: Militarized Landscapes; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464530003321 |
| London ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / editors, Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole
| Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / editors, Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Military geography - History |
| ISBN | 1-4411-2560-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Introduction: Beneath the Camouflage: Revealing Militarized Landscapes; PART I: INHABITING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 1 Military Landscapes / Militære Landskap: The Military Landscape Photography of Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén; 2 Fighting in 'Dante's Inferno': Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864; PART II: COEXISTENT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LANDSCAPES; 3 Coexistent Landscapes: Military Integration and Civilian Fragmentation
4 The Shoeburyness Complex: Military Spatial Production and the Problem of the Civilian Body5 A Picturesque Ruin? Landscapes of Loss at Tyneham and the Epynt; PART III: THE SURPRISING NATURE OF MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 6 Militarization, Conservation and US Base Transformations; 7 A Fairy (Shrimp) Tale of Military Environmentalism: The 'Greening' of Salisbury Plain; 8 The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History: The Case of the Korean DMZ; PART IV: COMMEMORATING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 9 Addressing the Nature of Gettysburg: 'Addition and Detraction' in Preserving an American Shrine 10 Fragmented Histories: Science, Environment and Monument Building at the Trinity Site, 1945-199511 Ruins, Relics and Restoration: The Afterlife of World War Two American Airfields in England, 1945-2005; Afterword: Militarized Landscapes; Notes; Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786909503321 |
| London : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / editors, Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole
| Militarized landscapes : from Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain / / editors, Chris Pearson, Peter Coates, Tim Cole |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Continuum, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (318 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Military geography - History |
| ISBN | 1-4411-2560-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Introduction: Beneath the Camouflage: Revealing Militarized Landscapes; PART I: INHABITING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 1 Military Landscapes / Militære Landskap: The Military Landscape Photography of Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén; 2 Fighting in 'Dante's Inferno': Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864; PART II: COEXISTENT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LANDSCAPES; 3 Coexistent Landscapes: Military Integration and Civilian Fragmentation
4 The Shoeburyness Complex: Military Spatial Production and the Problem of the Civilian Body5 A Picturesque Ruin? Landscapes of Loss at Tyneham and the Epynt; PART III: THE SURPRISING NATURE OF MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 6 Militarization, Conservation and US Base Transformations; 7 A Fairy (Shrimp) Tale of Military Environmentalism: The 'Greening' of Salisbury Plain; 8 The Exquisite Corpses of Nature and History: The Case of the Korean DMZ; PART IV: COMMEMORATING MILITARIZED LANDSCAPES; 9 Addressing the Nature of Gettysburg: 'Addition and Detraction' in Preserving an American Shrine 10 Fragmented Histories: Science, Environment and Monument Building at the Trinity Site, 1945-199511 Ruins, Relics and Restoration: The Afterlife of World War Two American Airfields in England, 1945-2005; Afterword: Militarized Landscapes; Notes; Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818924003321 |
| London : , : Continuum, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward
| Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward |
| Autore | Woodward Rachel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Militarism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-31943-0
9786611319434 1-4443-9987-X 0-470-77479-7 0-470-77773-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Military Geography, Militarism's Geographies; Chapter 2 Military Space; Chapter 3 Military Economic Geographies; Chapter 4 Militarized Environments; Chapter 5 Military Landscapes; Chapter 6 Challenging Military Geographies; Chapter 7 The Study of Military Geographies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145551903321 |
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Woodward Rachel
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward
| Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward |
| Autore | Woodward Rachel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Militarism |
| ISBN |
1-281-31943-0
9786611319434 1-4443-9987-X 0-470-77479-7 0-470-77773-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Military Geography, Militarism's Geographies; Chapter 2 Military Space; Chapter 3 Military Economic Geographies; Chapter 4 Militarized Environments; Chapter 5 Military Landscapes; Chapter 6 Challenging Military Geographies; Chapter 7 The Study of Military Geographies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996205985003316 |
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Woodward Rachel
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward
| Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward |
| Autore | Woodward Rachel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Militarism |
| ISBN |
1-281-31943-0
9786611319434 1-4443-9987-X 0-470-77479-7 0-470-77773-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Military Geography, Militarism's Geographies; Chapter 2 Military Space; Chapter 3 Military Economic Geographies; Chapter 4 Militarized Environments; Chapter 5 Military Landscapes; Chapter 6 Challenging Military Geographies; Chapter 7 The Study of Military Geographies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830495803321 |
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Woodward Rachel
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward
| Military geographies [[electronic resource] /] / Rachel Woodward |
| Autore | Woodward Rachel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Military geography
Militarism |
| ISBN |
1-281-31943-0
9786611319434 1-4443-9987-X 0-470-77479-7 0-470-77773-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Military Geography, Militarism's Geographies; Chapter 2 Military Space; Chapter 3 Military Economic Geographies; Chapter 4 Militarized Environments; Chapter 5 Military Landscapes; Chapter 6 Challenging Military Geographies; Chapter 7 The Study of Military Geographies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910840502403321 |
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Woodward Rachel
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| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military geography for professionals and the public / / John M. Collins
| Military geography for professionals and the public / / John M. Collins |
| Autore | Collins John M. <1921-2018, > |
| Edizione | [First Brassey's edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, Inc., , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 437 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina |
355.4/7
355.47 |
| Collana | Association of the United States Army |
| Soggetto topico | Military geography |
| ISBN | 1-59797-359-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION; 1. OVERVIEW; Military Considerations; Regional Quirks; Avoidable Abuses; Analytical Techniques; PART ONE: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; 2. SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; Location; Size; Shape; 3. LAY OF THE LAND; Land Forms; Rivers and Reservoirs; Geology and Soils; Vegetation; 4. OCEANS AND SEASHORES; Sea Water Attributes; Sea Surface Behavior; Marine Topography; Representative Naval Ramifications; 5. EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE; Atmospheric Phenomena; Climatology for Military Strategists; Meteorology for Military Operators
6. REGIONAL PECULIARITIES Frigid Flatlands; Frigid Seas; Mountainous Regions; Arid Regions; Tropical Rain Forests; Wetlands; Coastlands and Small Seas; 7. INNER AND OUTER SPACE; Space Compared with Land and Sea; Region I: Aerospace Interfaces; Region II: Circumterrestrial Space; Region III: Moon and Environs; Region IV: Outer Envelope; Tips for Military Space Planners; 8. NATURAL RESOURCES AND RAW MATERIALS; Sources and Shortages; Compensatory Programs; Resource Deprivation; PART TWO: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; 9. POPULATIONS; Demography; Physical Attributes; Cultural Characteristics Current Attitudes National Personalities; Cross-Cultural Skills; 10. URBANIZATION; Sites and Structures; Urban Sprawl; Conventional Urban Combat; Unconventional Urban Combat; Conventional Urban Bombardment; Urban Centers and Nuclear Strategy; Overall Urban Vulnerabilities; 11. LINES OF COMMUNICATION; Roads; Railroads; Military Airports; Seaports and Harbors; Spaceports and Flight Paths; Inland Waterways; Pipelines; 12. MILITARY BASES; U.S. Home Bases; U.S. Cold War Bases Abroad; Post-Cold War Retrenchment; 13. FORTRESSES AND FIELD FORTIFICATIONS; Precedents and Prognoses; Fortified Points Fortified Lines Offensive Fortifications; Fortifications in the Nuclear Age; Citadels Versus CW and BW Weapons; PART THREE: POLITICAL-MILITARY GEOGRAPHY; 14. MILITARY SERVICE PREDILECTIONS; Diversified Viewpoints; Integrated and Updated Views; 15. GEOPOLITICAL FRICTION; Territorial Limits; Strategic Friction; Economic Friction; Cultural Friction; Environmental Friction; 16. MILITARY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY; Global Subdivisions; Regional Areas of Responsibility; Useful Insights; Theater and Tactical AORs; PART FOUR: AREA ANALYSES; 17. FORMAT FOR AREA ANALYSIS; Geographical Data Bases Military Missions Military Implications; Effects on Courses of Action; 18. OPERATION NEPTUNE; Selection of the Lodgment Area; Description of the Lodgment Area; Assessments of the Lodgment Area; Effects on Allied Courses of Action; Wrap-Up; 19. OPERATION PLAN EL PASO; The Ho Chi Minh Trail; Mission Planning; Logistical Limitations Within Vietnam; Logistical Shortcomings Inside Laos; Wrap-Up; 20. FINAL REFLECTIONS; APPENDIX A: Acronyms and Abbreviations; APPENDIX B: Glossary of Geographical Terms; APPENDIX C: A Basic Geographic Library; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910693816703321 |
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Collins John M. <1921-2018, >
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| Washington, District of Columbia : , : Potomac Books, Inc., , 1998 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Military geoscience : a multifaceted approach to the study of warfare / / edited by Aldino Bondesan, Judy Ehlen
| Military geoscience : a multifaceted approach to the study of warfare / / edited by Aldino Bondesan, Judy Ehlen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Disciplina | 355.47 |
| Collana | Advances in Military Geosciences |
| Soggetto topico | Military art and science |
| ISBN | 3-030-79260-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Military Geoscience: A Multifaceted Discipline -- 1.1 Military Geoscience: What Is It? -- 1.2 Military Geoscience: A Brief History -- 1.3 The International Association for Military Geoscience -- 1.4 Advances in Military Geosciences -- 1.5 The 13th International Conference on Military Geosciences, Padua, Italy -- 1.6 From Marathon to the Twenty-First Century: An Overview -- References -- Part I: Pre-twentieth Century -- Chapter 2: Visualizing the Impacts of Topography: A Geographic Perspective of the Battle of Marathon -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Historical Context -- 2.3 The Greeks Decide to Fight: Geographic and Tactical Factors -- 2.4 Visualizing the Battlefield Environment -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Defending Britain's Soft Underbelly: Invasion, Fortification and Geology Near Portsmouth, Hampshire -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Portsmouth and the Solent -- 3.3 Henrician Forts (1539-1545) -- 3.3.1 Calshot Castle -- 3.3.2 Hurst Castle -- 3.3.3 Southsea Castle -- 3.4 Palmerston Forts (1853-1874) -- 3.4.1 The Gosport Advanced Line -- 3.4.2 The Northern Approaches -- 3.4.3 The Spithead Forts -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: Fortress Monte Baldo: A Military Landscape Between Nature and War -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A Mountain on the Limes Veneticus -- 4.3 A Static Front -- 4.4 From War to Memory -- 4.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II: World War -- Chapter 5: The Practice of Trench Warfare: Training Sites in the Aube Region of France (Champagne), 1914-1919 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Study Area -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.4 Results -- 5.4.1 Trench Site Inventory -- 5.4.2 Archaeological Evidence -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: A Digital and Archaeological Perspective of the World War One Veneto-Trentino Front Line Trench Systems in Northern Italy.
6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Archaeological and Historical Context -- 6.3 Applied Methods -- 6.4 Millegrobbe Case Study -- 6.4.1 Object-Based Image Analysis Classification -- 6.4.2 Field Survey and Evaluation of Results -- 6.5 The Winterstellung Case Study -- 6.5.1 Remote Sensing and Cartographic Analysis -- 6.5.2 Field Survey and GPS Mapping -- 6.5.3 Archaeological Excavations -- 6.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: The Italian Corps of Engineers in World War I: Innovations in Mining and Tunnel Warfare -- 7.1 The Italian Corps of Engineers and Its Organization During WWI -- 7.2 Italian Mining and Tunneling Technology in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 7.3 Overview of Tunnel Warfare in Italy, 1916-1918 -- 7.4 Tunneling and Listening in the War of Mines: Methods and Instruments -- 7.4.1 Tunneling and Underground Construction in Alpine Mine Warfare -- 7.4.2 Underground Listening -- 7.5 Conclusion: Post-war Evaluation of Tunnel Warfare in Italy -- References -- Chapter 8: The World War I Tactical Maps of the Italian Army: Proposals for a Typological Classification, an Interpretation of Symbols and a Digital Analysis of the Cartographies in the Historical Archive of the Third Army -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Documentary Corpus of the Italian Third Army -- 8.3 The Tactical Maps -- 8.4 The Maps Produced in the Last Years of the War -- 8.5 A First Analysis of the Symbols Adopted on Military Maps -- 8.6 A Digital Analysis and Visualization: From Georeferencing to the Time Manager Plugin -- 8.7 Conclusion: Military Maps as Both a Source of Information and a Cultural Heritage -- References -- Chapter 9: Geographical Representation of the Royal Italian Army War Sectors and Sites during the First World War -- 9.1 Places and Memory -- 9.2 From the Name to the Place -- 9.3 The Great War of the Italian Royal Army: In Search of Places -- 9.4 The Sources. 9.4.1 Basic Cartography -- 9.4.2 Digital Sources -- 9.5 The Analysis of Toponyms -- 9.6 The Places-of-War Gazetteer -- 9.7 GIS and Online GIS -- 9.8 Final Considerations -- References -- Chapter 10: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa During the Second World War: Circumstances and Contributions -- 10.1 Prisoner-of-War Experiences -- 10.2 Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa -- 10.3 Conditions in South Africa -- 10.3.1 Initial Conditions and Political Dilemma -- 10.3.2 Life in Zonderwater -- 10.4 Contributions to the South African Society -- 10.5 Selected Contributions -- 10.5.1 Eduardo Daniele Villa (1915-2011) -- 10.5.2 Gregorio Fiasconaro (1915-1994) -- 10.6 Keeping the Memories Alive -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: The 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado: The Origin of Mountain Alpine Warfare Testing and Training in the US -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Finding and Building Camp Hale -- 11.3 Training and Preparations for War at Camp Hale -- 11.4 Post Camp Hale Deployment and Fighting in Italy -- 11.5 The Postwar Period at Camp Hale -- 11.6 Legacy and Memorialization of the 10th Mountain Division in Colorado -- 11.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: German Military Geography and Geology at the Eastern Front 1941-1945 -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Military Geographical Studies of Eastern Europe -- 12.3 Deployment of German Military Geology Teams to the Eastern Front -- 12.3.1 Phase 1: German Military Geology in East Prussia and in the General Gouvernement (1940) -- 12.3.2 Phase 2: German Military Geology during Operation Barbarossa (June 1941-November 1943) -- 12.3.3 Phase 3: Military Geology During the Retreat of the German Armies (November 1943-March 1945) -- 12.4 Military Geology of the Waffen-SS -- 12.5 Terrain Evaluation by the OKW-Forschungsstaffel in the Eastern Theatre. 12.6 Russian Military Geology in the Second World War -- 12.7 Final Remarks -- Appendix 12A: Glossary of English/German Military Terms -- Appendix 12B German and Austrian military geoscientists assigned as military geologists to geology teams (GT) and military geology teams (MGT) in Eastern Europe during the Second World War -- References -- Chapter 13: The Use of German Military Geology in the Adriatic Theatre 1943-1945 -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 German Military Geologists Deployed to the Adriatic Theatre -- 13.2.1 Military Geology Teams of the Army High Command -- 13.2.2 Maps Prepared by the Forschungsstaffel -- 13.2.3 Construction Agency Todt (OT) -- 13.2.4 Military Geologists of the Waffen-SS -- 13.3 The SS-Karstwehr-Bataillon -- 13.4 Summary and Discussion -- References -- Part III: Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 14: Sustainability of US Army Agribusiness Development Team Efforts: A Decade in Afghanistan -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.1.1 US Army Agribusiness Development Teams -- 14.2 Methods -- 14.3 Results and Interpretations -- 14.3.1 Ghazni Agribusiness Complex (Positive) -- 14.3.2 Arbaba National Environmental Park (No Change) -- 14.3.3 Ghazni Demonstration Farm (Loss) -- 14.4 Discussion -- 14.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Contemporary Security Threats on the High Seas -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Piracy Data and Defining the Problem -- 15.3 Temporal and Spatial Patterns -- 15.3.1 The Somali Pirates -- 15.3.2 Temporal Trends -- 15.3.3 Spatial Patterns -- 15.4 Geographic Analysis -- 15.4.1 Maritime Geography -- 15.4.2 Boundaries and Borders -- 15.4.3 Governance -- Law of the Sea -- Failing States -- 15.5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 16: The Geography of Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The International Convention Governing Maritime Zones. 16.3 Strategic Importance of the South China Sea -- 16.4 Drivers of Conflict in the South China Sea -- 16.4.1 Oil and Natural Gas -- 16.4.2 Fisheries -- 16.4.3 Contested Areas -- Spratly Islands -- Paracel Islands -- Skirmishes -- Island Building -- 16.5 International Responses to Confrontation -- 16.6 Discussion -- 16.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 17: Geological Considerations for Military Works in the Afrin Battlespace, Syria -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Background -- 17.3 Geology Around Afrin -- 17.4 Military Works -- 17.4.1 Turkey -- 17.4.2 Autonomous Afrin Region -- Cut-and-Cover Trenches -- Underground Facilities -- Improvised Tunnel-Boring Machines -- Tunnelling Rates -- 17.5 Fighting in the Mountains -- 17.6 Fighting in Urban Spaces -- 17.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 18: Current Operational Challenges and Innovative Approaches for Military Geo-Services from an Austrian Perspective -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Current Trends -- 18.2.1 Globalization -- 18.2.2 High Speed -- 18.2.3 Modern Warfare -- 18.2.4 Budget Control -- 18.2.5 Digitalization -- 18.2.6 Geo and Space -- 18.2.7 Information Society -- 18.2.8 High Complexity -- 18.3 Conclusion -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910548171603321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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