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Mapping Colombia : the correlation between land data and strategy / Geoffrey Demarest.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Demarest, Geoff
- Series:
- Shaping the regional security environment in Latin America, Special series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Political aspects--Colombia.
- Land tenure.
- Land use--Political aspects--Colombia.
- Land use.
- Acquisition of property--Political aspects--Columbia.
- Acquisition of property.
- Colombia--Strategic aspects.
- Colombia.
- Strategic aspects of individual places.
- Land use--Political aspects.
- Land tenure--Political aspects.
- Property.
- Genre:
- Surveys
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 42 pages) : 1 map
- Place of Publication:
- Carlisle, Pa. : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- The mapping of Colombian national territory, however, is fundamental to the problem of control of national territory. As a threshold matter, policy, strategy, and military asset management in contemporary conflict in virtually any unstable part of the world must deal with the problem of governance in [beta]lawless areas.[gamma] Unless a central government such as that in Colombia can exert legitimate control and governance in the 60+ percent of the municipalities not under its control, there can be no effective judicial system and rule of law; no effective legal crop substitution programs; no effective democratic processes; and, only very little military or police action to bring law and order into unknown and difficult terrain. Indeed, control of the national territory is a strategic paradigm for 21st century conflict. The state is under assault by a powerful combination of state weaknesses, [beta]lawless areas, [gamma] and insurgent and criminal terrorism. All these contributors to instability and violence have a powerful effect on local, regional, national, and international security. Colombia and other states experiencing conflicts that range from criminal anarchy to virtual civil war must understand that putting treasure and blood into a conflict situation without first establishing the strategic foundations of success only result in ad hoc, piece-meal, disjointed, and ineffective reactions to truly inconsequential problems.
- Contents:
- Bountiful property
- Putumayo coca eradication and the World War II raid on Ploesti
- Giving property away
- Military options
- Mapping
- The Upshot.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed March 31, 2003).
- "March 2003."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Other Format:
- Demarest, Geoffrey. Mapping Colombia
- ISBN:
- 158487113X
- 9781584871132
- OCLC:
- 51949668
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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