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GEOGRAPHY AND THE USE OF FORCE: A GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ENGAGEMENT IN THE LATE 20TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES

Author(s): Branislav Đorđević, Nebojša Vuković
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Институт за међународну политику и привреду
Keywords: war; USA; strategy; geography; geopolitics; force
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes US military interventions at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, from the perspective of geopolitics and geostrategy. The analysis covers the period from the American military engagement in the Middle East and the Balkans in the early 1990s, through the interventions in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), to the current actions in Iraq and Syria. The paper explains how geographical factors of strategic importance (access to the sea, position) influence the preparation and conduct of military operations by the United States armed forces. The authors emphasize that, regardless of the development of technology and its widespread application in warfare, geographical factors continue to significantly determine the use of force in the 21st century, even when it comes to the “only remaining superpower”. In their opinion, geography will continue to be an important factor in planning the use of force in the decades to come, especially when it comes to the foreign policy performance of the United States.

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