ABSTRACT

World Strategic Highways provides a detailed examination of approximately 50 of the most important strategic highways in the world. These highways may take the form of roads, railways, rivers and canals, or air and sea routes. They have one thing in common: they are of special significance because, throughout history, they have acted as major trade routes for a number of countries; have military or strategic significance; act to bind a country or countries together; or, in the case of rivers, act as boundaries between two or more countries. They include the Suez and Panama canals, the Rhine and Amazon rivers, the Trans-US Railway, the Khyber Pass and Maputo Corridor, the Silk Road, the Cape sea route and the Pacific sea route. Location maps are provided throughout the book.

part I|48 pages

The Americas

chapter 1|6 pages

Alaska

chapter 2|6 pages

Canada: Transcontinental Highways

chapter 3|6 pages

The St Lawrence Seaway

chapter 4|6 pages

The Mississippi–Missouri

chapter 5|4 pages

The Rio Grande

chapter 6|6 pages

The Panama Canal

chapter 7|6 pages

The Amazon

chapter 8|6 pages

The Paraná

part II|38 pages

Europe

chapter 9|6 pages

The English Channel and the North Sea

chapter 10|6 pages

The Channel Tunnel

chapter 11|5 pages

The Rhine

chapter 12|6 pages

The Danube

chapter 13|6 pages

The Mediterranean

chapter 14|7 pages

The Dardanelles and the Black Sea

part III|75 pages

Africa

chapter 15|7 pages

The Nile

chapter 16|7 pages

The Niger River

chapter 17|5 pages

Ethiopia: No Exit

chapter 18|5 pages

The Congo River

chapter 19|7 pages

The Zambezi

chapter 20|7 pages

The TANZAM Railway

chapter 22|6 pages

The Beira Corridor

chapter 24|6 pages

The Benguela Railway

chapter 25|6 pages

The BOTZAM Road

chapter 26|6 pages

The South African Network

part IV|27 pages

The Middle East

chapter 27|7 pages

The Suez Canal

chapter 28|5 pages

The River Jordan

chapter 29|6 pages

The Tigris–Euphrates River System

chapter 30|7 pages

The Gulf

part V|20 pages

Russia/Europe/Asia

chapter 31|5 pages

The Volga

chapter 32|7 pages

The Trans-Siberian Railway

part VI|17 pages

South Asia

chapter 34|5 pages

The Khyber Pass

chapter 35|5 pages

The Indus

chapter 36|5 pages

The Ganges–Brahmaputra

part VII|13 pages

South-East Asia

chapter 37|6 pages

The Mekong

chapter 38|5 pages

Singapore: Strategic City-State

part VIII|26 pages

China

chapter 39|7 pages

The Yangtze (Chang Jiang)

chapter 40|5 pages

The Yellow River (Huang He)

chapter 41|6 pages

The Silk Road

chapter 42|6 pages

The Great Wall of China

part IX|27 pages

The World

chapter 43|6 pages

Landlocked Countries

chapter 44|6 pages

The International Airways System

chapter 45|13 pages

The International Drugs Trade