Abstract:In recent years, western military powers represented by the United States have made great progress in the field of military geology, and especially made many preparations for dealing with future wars. Through systematic collection of papers and other published materials on the latest symposium on military geology from recent International Conference on Military Geosciences (ICMG) and the American Geological Association (GSA), this paper sorts out the current hot issues in foreign military geology research and summarizes its new progress, including terrain information research, military base location, potential special battlefield environments investigation, underground important facilities evaluation, and unconventional combat environment investigation. Noncombat areas include emergency rescue and disaster relief, ecological environment protection and environmental safety assessment. Finally, the existing problems in current military geology research are analyzed, and its future development trend is also pointed out.