Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Introduction to military geography: Military geography in th e US: history, scope, and recent developments / Eugene J. Palka ; Milit ary science for the non-professional / Francis A. Galgano -- An introdu ction to geography for non-geographers / Francis A. Galgano ; Environme ntal security: a growing force in regional stability / Kent Hughes Butt s ; The environment and regional security: a framework for analysis / A my Richmond Krakowka ; Climate change and potential regional instabilit y in the Arctic / Eugene J. Palka ; The legacy of federal military land s in the US: a geographic retrospective / William W. Doe III -- Part 2. Historical and operational military geography: Streams and military la ndscape / Francis A. Galgano ; Methuen's Northern Cape Campaign, Anglo -Boer War, 1899-1902 / Hendrik A. P. Smit ; The battle for Attu: physic al geographic challenges of the Aleutian Campaign of World War II / Eug ene J. Palka ; Protecting the force: medical geography and the Buna-Gon a Campaign / Eugene J. Palka and Francis A. Galgano ; The geography of amphibious warfare / Francis A. Galgano ; Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992 -5: epitomizing Yugoslavia's bloody collapse / Steven Oluic ; Afghanist an: Operation Enduring Freedom and military geographic challenges / Eug ene J. Palka ; Iraq and Operation Iraqi Freedom: a military geography / Eugene J. Palka, Francis A. Galgano, and Mark W. Corson -- Part 3. App lied military geography: Military lands as spatial analogs for a twenty -first-century Army: natural environments for testing and training / Wi lliam W. Doe III ; Aeolian processes and military operations / Joseph P . Henderson ; Infrastructure vulnerability in a catastrophic CSZ event and implications on disaster response for the Oregon coast / Wiley C. T hompson ; Khe Sanh, Vietnam: examining the long-term impacts of warfare on the physical landscape / Joseph P. Hupy ; Napoleonic know-how for s tability operations / Douglas E. Batson ; Identicide in Sarajevo: the d estruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzego vina / Sarah Jane Meharg ; Geopolitics and the dragon's advance: an exp loration of the strategy and reality of china's growing economic and mi litary power and its effect upon Taiwan / Clifton W. Pannell ; Ungovern ed space and effective sovereignty in the Global War on Terror: western Pakistan / Francis A. Galgano.