These maps detailed the Great Mongolian Road, which included key settlements and important water sources.

Today's Army leaders consider it inevitable that U.S. ground forces will engage in combat in dense urban environments, including building interiors and subterranean spaces. These settings eliminate or ...

The Army is looking to up its subterranean warfare capabilities with drone technology that would allow soldiers map out tunnels By Haley Britzky Published Apr 23, 2019 4:23 PM EDT The Army is looking ...

JORDAN - Cartography, the science or practice of drawing and reading maps, can be dated back to the ancient ages of Before Christ (B.C.) within the Julian and Gregorian calendars. One of the oldest ...

For decades, it was little more than a vague reference in the accounts of explorers and travelers. A great route running east to west across the Gobi Desert, used for centuries by camel caravans, but ...

“The fascist octopus has sung its swansong”. George Orwell’s classic example of a mixed metaphor came to mind walking around “War Map”, a new exhibition at London’s Map House. In this collection of ...

Army History, No. 119 (SPRING 2021), pp. 26-41 (16 pages) J. K. Finch, Topographic Maps & Sketch Mapping (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1920), ix. 2. P. Lee Phillips, “Washington as Surveyor and ...

Like stamps on a passport, the stamps on these captured Russian military maps tell a story—for the maps, it's often one of intrigue and globetrotting. Stamps emblazoned with national insignia reveal ...

A COLLECTION of German military maps is on public exhibition during this month at the Royal Geographical Society's House at the corner of Kensington Gore and Exhibition Road. A few of these maps are ...