Geography of War in the Post Cold War World

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“Professor Patrick OSullivan has produced a thoughtful and far reaching study that successfully unravels the complex relationship between warfare and geography in the last decade of the 20th century. Rather than analyze the impact of geography upon warfare as exemplified by the military planners and historians, he also examines the influence of war upon geography. . . .He cogently traces the efforts of each civilization to defend their territory and population from invasion or encroachment. He reinforces his claims with concrete evidence ranging from the Roman Empire to the Gulf War and the conflict in the Balkans. . . . The author carefully analyzes why wars occur in certain areas, and examines the causes and effects of the wars between 1945 and 1989, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ramifications for the rest of the world. . . . OSullivan surveys the evolution of geopolitics from the era of colonization through the new world order in the 1990s, as well as the development of geostrategy to stabilize the fractured states of the world. In the process, he carefully analyzes the role of naval, military, and nuclear strategy as well as land strategy, post Cold War strategy.” Donald D. Horward, Ben Weider Eminent Scholar, Chair in Napoleonic History, Florida State University