ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a military presence that, despite its long association with specific places and regions in the British Isles, has only recently set firm roots into the British landscape. It proposes that land use is only one component in much more expansive use of space which includes infrastructural connections between sites, vast volumes of restricted airspaces towering into the troposphere and any number of hazardous events and processes that remain largely concealed from public scrutiny. However, the increasing use of land for military training and defence must also be measured against a somewhat more complex use of airspace. The chapter finds new ways of visualising the emerging invisible geographies of training and defence, the hidden imbrications that connect the disparate sites of the military landscape. In recent years the military geographies of the UK have effectively remained frozen in a Cold War posture despite the noticeable absence of threat from any sizable state with designs on attrition warfare.
