This volume provides an overview and analysis of salient contemporary and historical military subjects from the military geographer's perspective. It offers essential insights into contemporary security issues and promotes the idea that such insight is critical to understanding and managing significant military problems.

The aim of this book is to demonstrate how environmental factors have caused an evolution in the landscape of national security since the end of the Cold War. Through relevant case studies, the scope of the problem on the national security landscape due to environmental stressors is illuminated, examined, and synthesized with climate-related data.