Using KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis for the Assessment of Twentieth Century Battlefield Landscapes

• Published in: Heritage
• Main Author: Dirk HR Spennemann
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: battlefield archaeology; military heritage; cultural landscapes; Kiska; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage3030042

Military terrain analysis serves as a tool to examine a battle commander’s view of a battlefield and permits to hindcast some of the rationale for actions taken. This can be augmented by physical evidence of the remains of the battle that still exist in the cultural landscape. In the case of World W...