Foreword "Geopolitical Thinking in Those Days"

[Dave Monroe]

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--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "Geopolitical thinking in those days was enchanted
> with thh 'World-Island' idea of British geographer
> Halford Mackinder--meaning Europe, Asia and Africa
> considered as a single landmass surrounded by water,
> 'the pivot of history,' whose heartland was 1984's
> Eurasia.  'Who rules the Heartland commands the
> World-Island,' as Mackinder had put it, and 'Who
> rules the World-Island commands the world,' a
> pronouncement not lost on Hitler and other
> theoreticians of realpolitik." ("Foreword," p. xiv)

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