Some thoughts on war and geography

Journal of Strategic Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 201-217

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EID: 0033467291     PISSN: 01402390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402399908437761     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. For the contribution made an ignorance of geography as well as history to the disastrous decision of the US government to embark on the Vietnam War in 1965, see H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNatnara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (NY: HarperCollins 1997).
2. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (NY: 1977) pp.21-2.
3. Quoted in Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August [1964] (NY: Macmillan 1988) pp.17-18. Tuchman gets the river wrong.
4. For the most thorough examination of the battle see Stephen W. Sears, The Landscape Turned Red, The Battle of Antietam (NY: Ticknor & Fields 1983).
5. See the extensive discussions on the development of the German defense-in-depth, reverseslope tactics in Capt. G.C. Wynne, If Germany Attacks, The Battle in Depth in the West (London: Faber 1940).
6. Dominick Graham and Shelford Bidwell, Tug of War: The Battle for Italy, 1943-1945 (London: Hodder 1986) p. 147-9.
7. Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (London/NY: M. Joseph/Simon & Schuster 1984) p.141.
8. Air Ministry, The Rise and Fall of the German Air Force, 1933-1945 (London: HMSO 1948) p.75.
9. Williamson Murray, The Air War in the Persian Gulf (Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation 1995) pp.226-7 . Also see Barry Watts, Clausewitzian Friction and Future War (Washington DC: NDU Press 1996) p.40.
10. Williamson Murray, The Air War in the Persian Gulf (Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation 1995) pp.226-7 . Also see Barry Watts, Clausewitzian Friction and Future War (Washington DC: NDU Press 1996) p.40.
11. Matthew Cooper, The German Army, 1933-1945 (London/NY: Macdonald & Jane's/Scarborough House 1978) pp.272-3.
12. Martin Van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Cambridge, UP 1977) is particularly good on the constraints surrounding 'Barbarossa'.
13. Horst Boog, et al., Das Deutsche Reich und der zweite Weltkrieg, Vol.4, Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion (Stuttgart: Deutsche-Verlags-Anstalt 1983) p. 117.
14. On the French campaign see Robert Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 (Hamden, CT: Archon 1990) and Telford Taylor, The March of Conquest, The German Victories in Western Europe, 1940 (NY: Simon & Schuster 1958).
15. On the French campaign see Robert Doughty, The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 (Hamden, CT: Archon 1990) and Telford Taylor, The March of Conquest, The German Victories in Western Europe, 1940 (NY: Simon & Schuster 1958).
16. Doughty, Breaking Point (note 13) pp.46-53.
17. Boog, Der Angriff auf die Sowetunion, p.114.
18. Klaus Reinhardt, Die Wende vor Moskau: Das Scheitern der Strategie Hitlers im Winter 1941/1942 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1972) p.140.
19. See in particular Martin van Creveld, Fighting Power (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1982) and Russell F. Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy (Bloomington: Indiana UP 1973).
20. See in particular Martin van Creveld, Fighting Power (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1982) and Russell F. Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy (Bloomington: Indiana UP 1973).
21. Carl von Clausewitz, On War (eds.) Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton UP 1976) p.95.
22. See Williamson Murray, Luftwaffe: Strategy for Defeat 1933-45 (Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation 1985) Ch. 1.
23. Williamson Murray, 'The Luftwaffe before the Second World War: A Mission, A Strategy?' Journal of Strategic Studies 4/3 (Sept. 1981) pp.261-70.
24. Telford Taylor, Munich: The Price of Peace (Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1979) p.884.
25. Michael Howard, The Continental Commitment (London: Temple Smith 1972) p.32.
26. See Geoffrey Parker, 'The Making of Strategy in Hapsburg Spain: Philip II's 'Bid for Mastery,' in Williamson Murray and MacGregor Knox and Alvin Bernstein (eds.) The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (Cambridge UP 1994).
27. Piers Macksey, The War for America, 1775-1783 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP 1964) p.73.