ZONES OF CONFLICT: AN ATLAS OF FUTURE WARS by John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986) 158 pages $10.95 John Keegan's most memorable contribution to military history was The Face of Battle, a book which became the classic inquiry into battlefield behavior. Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of The World Atlas of Revolutions, an interesting Strategy & Tactics style treatment of major events of revolutionary violence. This effort by the two authors shows once again that collaborations usually equal less than the sum of their individual efforts. Zones of Conflict is a geopolitical look at the world with emphasis on areas of likely military activity. The authors contend (and rightly so) that geography and climactic conditions prevent effective military capabilities in many parts of the world. Factor in varying military capabilities and the requisite discontent (ideology, religion, race, language, material resources or historical reflexes), and, say the authors, one can identify the geographical location of where armed conflict might presumably take place. Most games and military history enthusiast will find little new information in the sections on Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. In fact, Victory Game's NATO and GULF STRIKE, and Strategy & Tactics' The China War will teach you more about geography than this atlas ever could. It's only in the discussions on South America and Africa, continents where countries exist with the possibility of great gains at little military cost, do Keegan and Wheatcroft begin to approach their real potential. Although titled an atlas, the maps in Zones of Conflict are not particularly impressive. Most contain less information and detail than wargame maps of ten years ago. Buy this atlas only if your job is writing feedback questions. HITLER'S MISTAKES Back to Cry Havoc #3 Table of Contents Back to Cry Havoc List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1993 by David W. Tschanz. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com