Geopolitics, Geography, and StrategyColin S. Gray, Geoffrey R. Sloan Geopolitical conditions influence all strategic behaviour - even when cooperation among different kinds of military power is expected as the norm, action has to be planned and executed in specific physical environments. The geographical world cannot be avoided, and it happens to be 'organized' into land, sea, air and space - and possibly the electromagnetic spectrum including 'cyberspace'. Although the meaning of geography for strategy is a perpetual historical theme, explicit theory on the subject is only one hundred years old. Ideas about the implication of geographical, especially spatial, relationships for political power - which is to say 'geopolitics'- flourished early in the twentieth century. |
Contents
Why Geopolitics? Geoffrey Sloan and Colin S Gray | 1 |
The Heartland Theory | 15 |
Alfred Thayer Mahan Geopolitician Jon Sumida | 39 |
Air Power Space Power | 63 |
International Boundaries | 125 |
Inescapable Geography Colin S Gray | 161 |
Weather Geography and Naval Power | 178 |
Some Thoughts on War and Geography Williamson Murray | 201 |
Haushofer Hitler | 218 |
Abstracts | 269 |