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Citadels and Marching Forts: How Non-Technological Drivers are Pointing Future Warfare Towards Techniques from the Past Cover

Citadels and Marching Forts: How Non-Technological Drivers are Pointing Future Warfare Towards Techniques from the Past

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|Apr 2019

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Map of ISAF bases in Afghanistan ca. 2011. Source: Washington Post (15 March 2012).

Figure 2

Sketch by author of Kandahar airfield perimeter. Afghanistan, September 2010.

Figure 3

Sketch by author of a Tegart fort at Latrun. Israel, October 2015.

Figure 4

Sketch by author of Lunt Roman fort at Baginton near Coventry, England. May 2017.

Figure 5

Sketch by author of the view from the ramparts of a 19th-century caravanserai. located outside the town of Maiwand, Afghanistan (bottom), a top-down view of the region showing the town in relation to the caravanserai as well as the site of the 27 July 1880 Battle of Maiwand (right), and a closer view of a combat outpost on a rock outcrop near Highway 1, a few miles east of the caravanserai. September 2010.

Figure 6

Sketch by author of a Balpro modular watchtower and fort in an unknown location amongst dunes drawn from an advertising brochure/data sheet with addition of a legionary soldier and Roman imperial eagle.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31374/sjms.25 | Journal eISSN: 2596-3856
Language: English
Page range: 30 - 41
Submitted on: Dec 15, 2018
Accepted on: Jan 15, 2019
Published on: Apr 17, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 David Betz, published by Scandinavian Military Studies
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.