The Strategic Performance of Defensive Barriers

Abstract

This monograph was prepared by the US Army Engineer Studies Center for the Combined Forces Command of the Republic of Korea and the United States. It reviews the strategic performance of barrier and fortification systems built by a variety of countries in the 19th and 20th centuries for lessons applicable to the design of a future Korea Barrier System. Those systems built in peacetime for the purposes of deterring invasion or stopping an initial attack during the beginning of a war were found to be most comparable to the nature of the Korea Barrier System. The barrier/fortifications systems reviewed include those of France (the Sere de Rivieres and the Maginot Lines), Germany (the Siegfried Line), the Low Countries (Eben Emael in Belgium, the water barriers in the Netherlands), Great Britain (Gibraltar and Singapore), Finland (the Mannerheim Line), and Israel (the Bar-Lev Line).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197303

Entities

People

  • Paul B. Seguin

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Command

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  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Construction
  • Deterrence
  • Engineers
  • Europe
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Investments
  • Regions
  • Second World War
  • Spain
  • Terrain
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Western Europe

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