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Military Geoscience

Bridging History to Current Operations

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Peter L. Guth

    1. Department of Oceanography, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA

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  • A rare collection of scholarly contributions regarding the integration of geosciences and military history and operations
  • Includes new geologic and geographic data for many historically important battles and campaigns
  • Provides examples of modern scientific technology used to support military activities
  • Provides examples of how modern scientific methods and technology are used to evaluate historic events and places
  • Includes contributions from academic, government, and military experts

Part of the book series: Advances in Military Geosciences (AMG)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Geosciences Supporting and Analyzing Military Operations

    • Peter L. Guth
    Pages 1-2

  3. Improvement in German Military Geology from the Napoleonic Wars to First World War

    • Hermann Häusler
    Pages 3-19

  4. The Battle of Big Hole (Montana, USA, 1877): History, Archaeology, GIS, and Military Terrain Analysis

    • Peter L. Guth, Douglas D. Scott
    Pages 21-39

  5. The Influence of Physical Geography on the Outcome of the Battle of Spioenkop During the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902

    • H. A. P. Smit, J. Bezuidenhout
    Pages 41-50

  6. Military Geoscientific Materials for Excursions to Theatres of First World War in France and Belgium

    • Reinhard Mang, Hermann Häusler
    Pages 51-65

  7. The Cadore Offensive: Theoretical Military Geography Considerations

    • Mauricio Nicolas Vergara, Aldino Bondesan
    Pages 67-83

  8. “Trenches in the Ocean”: Geography and the Russian Defense of the Baltic Sea, 1912–1917

    • Michael B. Barrett
    Pages 85-97

  9. Fort Eben-Emael: Geographic Pivot of the Western Front, 1940

    • Francis A. Galgano
    Pages 99-114

  10. Early Virtual Reality Simulators for the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Navy

    • Shane Guy
    Pages 115-124

  11. The 1968–1973 Egyptian Army Field Preparations for Crossing the Suez Canal and the Conflict Between Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Research Units

    • Joel Roskin, Eliyahu Dekel-Dolitzky
    Pages 125-143

  12. The Role of Terrain and Terrain Analysis on Military Operations in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century: A Case Study of Selected IDF Battles

    • Joel Roskin
    Pages 145-160

  13. Passive Seismic Survey of Sediment Thickness, Dasht-e-Nawar Basin, Eastern Afghanistan

    • Thomas J. Mack
    Pages 161-170

  14. Silver Bullets and the Paradox of Plenty: Natural Resource Development in Afghanistan

    • Lt Col Drew Craig
    Pages 171-186

  15. The Need for Geoscience Inputs in Civil Military Planning and Response

    • M. H. Bulmer
    Pages 187-206

  16. Insurgency and the City

    • Andrew D. Lohman
    Pages 207-216

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 217-222
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About this book

This book is a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference of Military Geoscience that was held in 2015. 

The conference included discussion on a diverse range of geosciences, including military history, military geology, teaching geology from a military prospective, geological influence on the battlefield, and environmental and cultural issues related to management of military lands. Geology and geography have played a significant role in military history, from providing the stone for primitive tools and weapons, to the utilization of terrain in offensive and defensive strategies. Specific to this volume, deserts comprise nearly a third of the Earth’s surface and have been the site of numerous battles where the dust, heat, and a lack of food and water have provided challenges to military leaders and warriors. This book examines the role of deserts in past and modern warfare, the problems and challenges in managing military lands in desert regions, and how desert environmental conditions can impact military equipment and personnel. This proceedings volume should be of interest to scholars, professionals, and those interested in military history, warfare, geology, geography, cultural resources, general science, and military operations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Oceanography, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA

    Peter L. Guth

About the editor

Professor Peter Guth was educated at Deep Springs College, West Point (US Military Academy), and earned a PhD from MIT on a Hertz Fellowship doing geologic mapping in the Sheep Range north of Las Vegas. He served in the military on active duty for 11 years, and the reserves for 17 years. He has taught at West Point, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and has been on the faculty of the Naval Academy’s oceanography department since 1988, teaching a wide range of courses including his research interests of geology and computer mapping.  He has served on the promotion and tenure committee, chaired the faculty senate curriculum committee, and is in the second year as president of the faculty senate. In 2018 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco.

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