Weather, terrain and warfare: Coalition fatalities in Afghanistan

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 220-239

  Carter, Timothy Allen ^a   Veale, Daniel Jay ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; armed conflict; insurgency; physical geography; terrain; weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878834016     PISSN: 07388942     EISSN: 15499219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0738894213484054     Document Type: Article

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