The history of warfare is global history, and early modernists have embraced this truth with newfound fervor over the past few decades. The resurgent interest in military history, and in the writing of histories that emphasize geopolitical connections as well as their environmental consequences, is as much about understanding the past as it is about responding to the present. We now take it as axiomatic that no local conflict is ever only local. Any conflict—whether in its causes, its ramifications, or both—is part of a larger, interconnected world.

For architectural historians, in particular, the sociological and technological emphasis of military history offers much common ground. Issues including logistics, material and personnel organization, competition for natural resources, and technical invention are fodder for explorations of the links between war and the built environment. We can credit the global and ecological turns for knitting architectural and military history ever closer together, but...

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