TY - JOUR
T1 - War the school of space
T2 - The space of war and the war for space
AU - Mendieta, Eduardo
PY - 2006/6/1
Y1 - 2006/6/1
N2 - This essay seeks to show that military strategists have not only been acute philosophers of space but also philosophers of world history. The works of Albert Speer (Nazi Minister of Armaments), Friedrich Ratzel (father of geopolitics), A. T. Mahan (Admiral), Halford Mackinder (Geographer and Historian of England), Carl Schmitt (Nazi Jurist and military philosopher), Guilio Duohet (father of 'strategic bombing'), and Harlan K. Ullman (father of 'Shock and Awe') are considered in terms of the ways in which space has been militarized, or rather how war spatializes world history. The geography of world history has been the topos of war.
AB - This essay seeks to show that military strategists have not only been acute philosophers of space but also philosophers of world history. The works of Albert Speer (Nazi Minister of Armaments), Friedrich Ratzel (father of geopolitics), A. T. Mahan (Admiral), Halford Mackinder (Geographer and Historian of England), Carl Schmitt (Nazi Jurist and military philosopher), Guilio Duohet (father of 'strategic bombing'), and Harlan K. Ullman (father of 'Shock and Awe') are considered in terms of the ways in which space has been militarized, or rather how war spatializes world history. The geography of world history has been the topos of war.
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U2 - 10.1080/13668790600694519
DO - 10.1080/13668790600694519
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745067193
VL - 9
SP - 207
EP - 229
JO - Ethics, Place and Environment
JF - Ethics, Place and Environment
SN - 1366-879X
IS - 2
ER -