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Bamboo is regarded as the most versatile woody plant worldwide. It accompanied humans from prehistoric times and contributed much to the socio-cultural and technological development of many small-scale and large-scale societies in Asia, the Americas, and Africa. Moreover, bamboo…

Influenced by what it perceived as easy victories due to superior technology in the Gulf War and in Kosovo, the American government believed that it could rely principally on its technology to win its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Superior technology indeed aided in ousting the …

How do militaries attempt to gain control over forbidding landscapes? How do advanced technologies designed to tame hostile environments shape military understandings of the battlefield? This dissertation examines the efforts of counterinsurgent forces to master the geographical…