An Operational Map of the Polish Coastal Front 1970

Forfattere

  • Thomas Theis Nielsen Department of Geography IMT/RUC
  • Stig Roar Svenningsen National Collections Department - Aerial Photographs, Maps, Prints and Photographs, The Royal Library in Denmark
  • Morten Tinning Maritime and Military Historian, MA History, Maritime Museum of Denmark
  • Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen Royal Danish Defence College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.perspektiv.v15i27.1404

Resumé

The map of the Operational Plan for the Coastal Front, from Poland 1970 forms the basis for this paper. The map portraits the blueprint of the combined operational war plans for the Polish military in the late 1960’s and 70’s. It details the offensive against NATO countries and their forces in Northern Europe.

As such, this map is clearly designed as an operational map produced to outline and regulate, not just the actual plan of the offensive, but also to produce a narrative about the Polish army as capable of undertaking such a massive enterprise. We argue, with a point of departure in this particular map, that the regional, operational scale of military maps can be understood as performative maps, outlining not just plans and structuring space, but often also narratives.

Forfatterbiografier

Thomas Theis Nielsen, Department of Geography IMT/RUC

Associate Prof., Ph.D.

Stig Roar Svenningsen, National Collections Department - Aerial Photographs, Maps, Prints and Photographs, The Royal Library in Denmark

Research Librarian

Morten Tinning, Maritime and Military Historian, MA History, Maritime Museum of Denmark

Curator

Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen, Royal Danish Defence College

Senior researcher, MA History

Brigadier General (Ret.)

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Publiceret

26-06-2016

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Artikler. Peer-review