The Geography of War - Vitale, Alessandra
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From the first page, this book insists on a simple, unsettling truth: power obeys the hard edges of the world. High ideals and new technology matter-but why geography matters in war more often decides who advances, who starves, and who signs. Here is a field manual for civilians, a clear method to read any map and predict the pressures that shape leaders' choices, markets' nerves, and armies' limits. You will learn how military strategy and terrain really interact: why ridgelines become law, why a single bridge can halt a nation, why chokepoints and trade routes price risk before politicians…mehr

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From the first page, this book insists on a simple, unsettling truth: power obeys the hard edges of the world. High ideals and new technology matter-but why geography matters in war more often decides who advances, who starves, and who signs. Here is a field manual for civilians, a clear method to read any map and predict the pressures that shape leaders' choices, markets' nerves, and armies' limits. You will learn how military strategy and terrain really interact: why ridgelines become law, why a single bridge can halt a nation, why chokepoints and trade routes price risk before politicians do. Case studies-from mountain wars to Arctic shipping routes, from canal closures to the Malacca Strait geopolitics-show how mountains, rivers, and oceans quietly script events we later call "history." This is for curious readers of geopolitics, business planners, analysts, journalists, and decision-makers who want fewer surprises and better questions. By the end, you will carry a working checklist: where to look first, what to count, and how to tell rhetoric from road. - See the map's hidden leverage points: heights, water, depth, access - Judge headlines using maps that shaped wars and supply logic - Anticipate shocks along supply lines and rivers, and narrow seas - Understand how the mountains, rivers oceans conflict continues despite drones If you want a sharper, calmer way to think about the world, start with the ground beneath it-and let geopolitics of geography upgrade your judgment on what comes next.
Autorenporträt
Alessandra Vitale writes about power where it touches ground: at frontiers, on passes, along sea lanes, and across the quiet margins of maps. Raised between coast and hills, she learned early that place teaches its own grammar-one written in gradients, winds, and tides. Her work blends the patience of a map reader with the restlessness of a reporter, tracing how distance, depth, and access turn into policy and fate. She has spent years studying the cartographies of empire and the afterlives of borders, with a particular fascination for how ordinary people make extraordinary decisions under the pressure of terrain. In her pages, alpine tracks meet shipping ledgers; the Roman road converses with the satellite swath. Vitale's guiding belief is simple and demanding: before we argue about the world, we should learn to look at it. This book is part of that education.