ABSTRACT
This chapter gains an awareness of the fact that the map, perhaps the central referent of geography, is, and has been, fundamentally an instrument of power. It has repeatedly requested the publication of such aerial photographs as would prove map inaccurate. Since geographers participate in the execution of this new kind of warfare geographical warfare they should surely begin to analyze it, prove or denounce it, since this is one of the most serious kinds of destruction. Geographical warfare can be waged anywhere in the world, and it is not yet over in Indo-China. It just happens that the large majority of the bombed dikes are situated in the eastern part of the delta, where these easily-flooded villages are to be found. It is possible to conclude that the bombing of the dikes was concentrated in the eastern part of the delta, which is also the densely populated and the most important from the standpoint of agricultural production.
