MILITARY GEOGRAPHY
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APPENDIX C:

A BASIC GEOGRAPHIC LIBRARY

The basic geographical library below consists entirely of books and military manuals. For relevant magazine and newspaper articles that address specific topics from various perspectives and in greater detail, see the citations in the books listed below:

• Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, Air University Library, 1963- , distributed on CD ROM by EBSCO Publishing, Peabody, MA, 01960
• Bibliography of Military Geography, vols.1-4, West Point, NY, Dept. of Geography and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968)
• Bibliography of Military Geography, compiled by Louis C. Peltier, Military Geography Committee, Association of American Geographers, April 1962

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

GENERAL
Gabler, Robert E. 1996. Essentials of Physical Geography. 5^th ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich.

Strahler, Arthur N., and Alan H. Strahler. 1978. Modern Physical Geography. New York: John Wiley.

Deffontaines, Pierre, ed. 1965. Larousse Encyclopedia of World Geography. 1965. New York: Odyssey Press.

LAND

Overviews
Field Manual 30-10: Terrain Analysis. March 27, 1972. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army (superseded by FM 5-33, same title, but contains more detailed information).

Technical Manual 5-545: Geology. July 1971. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Mountains
Field Manual 90-6: Mountain Operations. June 30, 1980. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Milne, Loris J., and Margery Milne. 1962. The Mountains. Life Nature Library. New York: Time-Life Books.

Deserts
Field Manual 90-3/Fleet Marine Force Manual 7-27: Desert Operations. August 19, 1977. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

George, Uwe. 1976. In the Deserts of the Earth. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

Leopold, A. Starker. 1961. The Desert. Life Nature Library. New York: Time-Life Books.

Jungles
Bergerud, Eric. 1996. Touched by Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Viking Press.

Field Manual 90-5: Jungle Operations. August 16, 1982. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army, Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Forests
Farb, Peter. 1961. The Forest. Life Nature Library. New York: Time-Life Books.

Miller, Edward G. 1995. A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.

Rivers and Swamps
DA Pamphlet 20-231: Combat in Russian Forests and Swamps. July 1951. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Field Manual 90-13/Fleet Marine Force Manual 7-26: River Crossing Operations. September 30, 1992. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Fulton, William B. 1985. Riverine Operations, 1966-1969. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Frigid Terrain
Field Manual 30-70: Basic Cold Weather Manual. April 1968. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Field Manual 31-71: Northern Operations. 1971. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

OCEANS AND SEASHORES

Oceanography
Davis, Richard A., Jr. 1972. Principles of Oceanography. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.

Dutton, Benjamin, and Elbert S. Maloney. 1942. Dutton's Navigation and Piloting. 14^th ed. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press.

Engel, Leonard. 1969. The Sea. Life Nature Series. New York: Time-Life Books.

Maury, Matthew F. 1855. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper and Brothers.

Thurman, Harold V. 1978. Introductory Oceanography, 2^d ed. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co.

Geographic Factors in Shipbuilding
Gates, P. J., and N. M. Lynn. 1990. Ships, Submarines, and the Sea. London: Brassey's (UK).

U.S. Navy Cold Weather Handbook for Surface Ships. May 1988. Washington, DC: Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Ship Survivability Office (OP 03C2).

The Littoral
Alexander, Joseph H., and Merrill L. Bartlett. 1995. Sea Soldiers in the Cold War: Amphibious Warfare 1945-1991. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press.

Koburger, Charles W., Jr. 1990. Narrow Seas, Small Navies, and Fat Merchantmen. New York: Praeger.

Vagts, Alfred. 1946. Landing Operations from Antiquity to 1945. Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing.

ATMOSPHERE

Climate
DA Pamphlet 20-291: Effects of Climate on Combat in European Russia. February 1952. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Kendrew, W. B. 1953. The Climates of the Continents. 4^th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

Weather Overviews
Burrows, William James. 1991. Watching the World's Weather. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Donn, William L. 1946. Meteorology with Marine Applications. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Heavy Weather Guide. 1965. Part I: Edwin T. Harding, Hurricanes; Part II: William J. Kotsch, Typhoons. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press.

Murchie, Guy. 1954. The Song of the Sky. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Military Weather
Air Force Doctrine Document 45: Aerospace Weather Operations. August 31, 1994. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Air Force.

Field Manual 34-81: Weather Support for Army Tactical Operations. 1989. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army and Dept. of the Air Force.

Fuller, John F. 1990. Thor's Legions: Weather Support to the U.S. Air Force and Army, 1937-1987. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society.

Joint Pub 3-59: Joint Doctrine for Meteorological and Oceanographic Support. December 22, 1993. Washington: Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Light Data
The Air Almanac. Issued annually. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

SPACE

Cochran, Curtis D., Dennis M. Gorman, and Joseph D. Dumoulin, eds. January 1985. Space Handbook. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press.

Collins, John M. 1989. Military Space Forces: The Next Fifty Years. Washington, DC: Pergammon-Brassey's.

Stein, G. Harry. 1981. Confrontation in Space. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Zombeck, Martin V. 1982. Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

PEOPLE

Demographics and Linguistics
Allen, John, and Doreen Massey, eds. Geographical Worlds. 1995. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca, et al., eds. 1994. The History and Geography of Human Genes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jones, H. R. 1981. Population Geography. New York: Harper and Row.

Jordan, Terry G., Mona Domosh, and Lester Rowntree. 1997. The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography. 7^th ed. New York: Longman.

Religious Preferences
Haught, James A. 1995. Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the 1990s. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.

Nielsen, Niels Christian. 1983. Religions of the World. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. 1984. World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present. New York: Facts on File.

Sopher, David E. 1967. Geography of Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Thompson, Henry O. 1988. World Religions in Peace and War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co.

Endemic Diseases
Bennett, Peter B., and David H. Elliott, eds. 1992. The Physiology and Medicine of Diving, 4^th ed. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

Disease and Environmental Alert Reports. 1992. Washington, DC: Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, Defense Intelligence Agency.

Kiple, Kenneth F., ed. 1993. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. New York: Cambridge University Press.

McNeill, William H. 1976. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor Books.

Stamp, L. Dudley. 1965. The Geography of Life and Death. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

Street Fighting
Bell, J. Bowyer. 1966. Besieged: Seven Cities Under Siege. New York: Chilton Books.

Field Manual 90-10: Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain. August 15, 1979. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Urban Bombardment and Defense
Gouré, Leon. 1976. War Survival in Soviet Strategy. Miami, FL: Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami.

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1976, 10 vols. New York: Garland Publishers.

Yegurov, P. T., et al. Undated. Civil Defense: A Soviet View, and N. M. Titov, et al. July 1975. Civil Defense. Both books ed. and trans. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.

PRODUCTS

Route Construction and Destruction
Anders, Leslie. 1965. The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Field Manual 5-25: Explosives and Demolitions. March 1996. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Field Manual 5-36: Route Reconnaissance and Classification. March 1985. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Field Manual 5-430-00-2, Air Force Joint Pamphlet 32-8013: Planning and Design of Roads, Airfields, and Heliports in the Theater of Operations, 2 vols. September 1994. Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army and Dept. of the Air Force.

Pei-Ying, Tan. 1945. The Building of the Burma Road. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Telecommunications
Kellerman, Aharon. 1993. Telecommunications and Geography. New York: Halsted Press.

U.S. Military Bases
Evinger, William R., ed. Directory of U.S. Military Bases Worldwide. 2^d ed. 1995. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.

Guide to Military Installations in the U.S.: A Reference to the Top 220 Bases, Posts and Stations. Updated periodically. Washington, DC: Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times.

Forts and Fortifications
Brice, Martin H. 1990. Forts and Fortresses. New York: Facts on File.

Field Manual 5-15: Field Fortifications. June 27, 1972 (superseded by FM 5-103: Survivability, June 10, 1985, restricted distribution). Washington, DC: Dept. of the Army.

Hogg, Ian. 1981. The History of Fortifications. New York: St. Martin's Press.

The Value of Field Fortifications in Modern Warfare. December 1, 1979. Washington, DC: prepared for Defense Nuclear Agency by Historical Evaluation and Research Organization (HERO).

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Davidian, Zaven N. 1994. Economic Disparities Among Nations: A Threat to Survival in a Globalized World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Knox, Paul L., and John Agnew. 1994. The Geography of the World Economy: An Introduction to Economic Geography. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall.

REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

GENERAL
Area Handbook Series (DA Pamphlet 550). Various dates and authors. Many volumes cover various countries and regions. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Government Printing Office.

Cole, J. P. 1996. Geography of the World's Major Regions. New York: Routledge.

de Blij, Harm J. and Peter O. Muller. 1997. Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts. New York: John Wiley.

The World Factbook. Printed version discontinued in 1995. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web. Washington, DC: National Foreign Intelligence Center, Central Intelligence Agency (unclassified).

THE AMERICAS
Caviedes, Caesar, and Gregory Knapp. 1995. South America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall.

Keegan, John. 1996. Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

James, Preston E., and Clarence W. Minkel. 1986. Latin America. New York: John Wiley.

McKnight, Tom L. 1992. Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

West, Robert C. 1989. Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. 3^d ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

EUROPE
Berentsen, William. 1997. Contemporary Europe: A Geographic Analysis. New York: John Wiley.

Hoffman, George W., ed. 1990. Europe in the 1990s: A Geographic Analysis. 6^th ed. New York: John Wiley.

SOVIET UNION AND SUCCESSOR STATES
Berg, L. S. 1950. Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R. Trans. Olga Adler Titelbaum. New York: Macmillan.

Curtis, Glenn E. 1997. Russia: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress

Lydolph, Paul E. 1979. Geography of the USSR: Topical Analysis. Elkhart, WI: Misty Valley Publishing.

Shaw, Denis J. B., ed. 1995. The Post Soviet Republics: A Systematic Geography. New York: John Wiley.

EAST ASIA
Drakakis-Smith, David. 1992 Pacific Asia. New York: Routledge.

Ginsberg, Norton. 1959. The Pattern of Asia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Lemley, Kendall M., ed. 1976. Geography of the People's Republic of China. West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, Dept. of Earth, Space, and Graphic Sciences.

Zhao, Songgiao. 1994. Geography of China: Environment, Resources, Population, and Development. New York: John Wiley.

MIDDLE EAST
Beaumont, Peter, et al. 1988. The Middle East: A Geographic Study. New York: John Wiley.

Fisher, W. B. 1950. The Middle East: A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography. New York: E. P. Dutton.

Kemp, Geoffrey, and Robert E. Harkavy. 1997. Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/Brookings Institution.

AFRICA
Aryeetey-Attoah, Samuel. 1997. Geography of Subsaharan Africa. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Joffú, George, ed. 1993. North Africa: Nation, State, and Region. New York: Routledge.

AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
McKnight, Tom L. 1995. Oceania: The Geography of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

POLAR REGIONS
The Arctic Basin. 1963. Coord. John E. Slate. Centerville, MD: Tidewater Publishing for the Arctic Institute of America.

Ley, Willey. 1962. The Poles. Life Nature Library. New York: Time-Life Books.

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Bennett, Robert J., and Robert Estall, eds. 1991. Global Change and Challenge: Geography for the 1990s. New York: Routledge.

Cohen, Saul Bernard. 1963. Geography in a World Divided. New York: Random House. Demko, George J., and William B. Woods. 1994. Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the 21^st Century. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Glassner, Martin I., and Harm J. de Blij. 1989. Systematic Political Geography. New York: John Wiley.

MILITARY GEOGRAPHY

GENERAL

Brinkerhoff, John R. 1964. The Nature of Modern Military Geography. Thesis, Columbia University.

May, Edward S. 1909. An Introduction to Military Geography. London: Hugh Rees.

O'Sullivan, Patrick, and Jesse W. Miller, Jr. 1983. The Geography of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.

O'Sullivan, Patrick. 1991. Terrain and Tactics. New York: Greenwood Press.

Peltier, Louis C., and G. Etzel Pearcy. 1966. Military Geography. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand.

Readings in Military Geography. 1990. Comp. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, Dept. of Geography.

HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS

Chandler, David. 1987. The Dictionary of Battles. London: Ebury Press.

Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. 1993. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History. 4^th ed. New York: Harper Collins.

Fuller, J. F. C. 1954. A Military History of the Western World. 2 vols. New York: Funk and Wagnalls.

Poole, Walter S., et al. February 1995. The History of the Unified Command Plan, 1946-1993. Washington, DC: Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES

Douhet, Guilio. 1983. Command of the Air. Eds. Richard H. Kohn and Joseph P. Harahan. Trans. Dino Ferrari. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office (originally published 1921).

Mackinder, Halford J. 1942. Democratic Ideals and Reality. New York: Henry Holt and Co. (original publication 1919).

Mahan, Alfred Thayer. 1957. The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783. American Century Series. New York: Hill and Wang (original publication 1890).

de Seversky, Alexander. 1950. Air Power: The Key to Survival. New York: Simon and Schuster.

TROUBLE SPOTS

Anderson, Ewan W. 1993. An Analysis of World Flashpoints: A Sourcebook of Geopolitical Crises. New York: Facts on File.

Day, Alan J., ed. 1987. Border and Territorial Disputes. A Keesings Reference Publication., 2^d ed. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.

Dunnigan, James E., and Austin Bey. 1985. A Quick & Dirty Guide to War. New York: William Morrow and Co.

Keegan, John, and Andrew Wheatcroft. 1986. Zones of Conflict. New York: Simon and Schuster.

COLD WAR CONSIDERATIONS

Farrington, Hugh. 1989. Strategic Geography: NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers. 2^d ed. New York: Routledge.

Glasstone, Samuel. 1964. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. 1964. Washington, DC: DA Pamphlet 39-3, Government Printing Office.

POLITICAL-MILITARY ATLASES

Barraclough, Geoffry. 1978. The Times Atlas of World History. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond.

Chaliand, Gérard, and Jean Pierre Rageau. 1992. A Strategic Atlas: Comparative Geopolitics of the World Powers. 3^d ed. New York: Harper Perennial.

Esposito, Vincent J., chief ed. 1995. The West Point Atlas of American Wars. 2 vols. West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, Dept. of Military Art and Engineering.

Friedman, Lawrence. 1985. Atlas of Global Strategy. New York: Facts on File.

Hartman, Tom. 1984. A World Atlas of Military History,1945-1984. New York: Hippocrene Books.

Keegan, John. 1994. The Times Atlas of the Second World War. New York: Crescent Books.

Kidron, Michael, and Dan Smith. 1983. The War Atlas: Armed Conflict--Armed Peace. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Lobeck, Armin K. 1993. Things Maps Don't Tell Us: An Adventure into Map Interpretation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.

Natkiel, Richard, and Antony Preston. 1985. Atlas of Maritime History. New York: Facts on File.

Summers, Harry G., Jr. 1995. Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

The West Point Atlas of Warfare Since 1945. 1994. West Point, New York: U.S. Military Academy, Dept. of History.

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