ZONES OF CONFLICT: An Atlas of Future Wars.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,owner's ink signature+date, behind front inner flap of dw/dj,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,green,black and white illustrated upper wrap, white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - but,a vertical laminate wrinkle (production fault) length of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy? Bright, clean, unblemished,publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with crisp,bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiv-xvpp+8-158pp [paginated] includes 6 Zones of conflicts sections comprising 30 chapters+conclusion,31 3 colour-block schematic maps throughout the text,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,contents+maps lists/tables,co-author's preface,an intro,conversion tables and a general key to maps. Great strategists have a rare gift.Like the chess grandmaster,they can out-think and out manoeuvre many enemies at once.They impose their own vision on the shape of wars to come.'Zones of Conflicts' shows the earth as the military planners in Washington,Peking and London conceive it.Generals,admirals and airmen see a world made up not of frontiers,towns,cities and countryside,but of weak fronts and strongholds,choke points and target zones.These are the key factors which control wars. For all that there are now 140 armies in the world,more than a dozen major navies and air forces,five strategic nuclear forces and the beginnings of a military apparatus in space,the places in which military power can actually be exerted are relatively few.Geographical or climatic factors prevent armed struggle taking place in vast areas of the world, while in others there is a marked absence of targets worth capturing or destroying,or mere distance itself makes strategic action unlikely.Many states are too weak to put their intentions into effect.The result is to reduce to less than fifty the spots on the globe where the strategic forecaster will focus his attention,though it should never be overlooked that new objectives (such as the discovery of oil or mineral deposits) can suddenly make a battlefield of seemingly untenable terrain.The prevailing fighting in the Lebanon (then 1986) is but the latest in a long history of battles for possession of the Levant since the third century B.C.,whereas oil has allowed the long-standing hostility between Argentina and Chile to flare up in the forbidding and inaccessible region of Tierra del Fuego,to which hitherto the machinery of war had not penetrated. Geographical obstacles and a strong navy have kept potential invaders out of England for almost 1,000 years,and though the coming of air power and intercontinental missiles have shown chinks in the British armour,even Hitler's Luftwaffe failed to breach it.Areas in which physical,climatic,logistic,economic,military,political and historical factors combine to aid the pursuit of conflict are then the primary subject of this fascinating book.Far from being a work designed exclusively for military enthusiasts and war-gamers,this unique book provides a comprehensible and illuminating insight for us all into the motivation and conduct shaping events reported every day in our newspapers and on our television screens.It does not say when (or even why) wars might break out.What it does show,for the first time,are the vital elements which condition the military options, and,with frightening clarity,the danger points for the future. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!