Democratic Ideals And Reality a Study in the Politics of Reconstruction
Democratic Ideals And Reality a Study in the Politics of Reconstruction
Halford John Mackinder
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They have, too, the Aero- THE LANDSMAN'S POINT OF VIEW 143 plane, which is of a boomerang nature, a weapon of land-power as against sea-power. (Modern artillery, moreover, is very formidable against ships. In short, a great military >- jJbwer in possession of the Heartland and of v Arabia could take easy possession of the cross- ways of the world at 13uez\ Sea-power would have found it very difficult to hold the Canal if a fleet of submarines had been based from the beginning of the war on the ...Black Sea. We have defeated the danger on this occasion, but the facts of geography remain, and offer ever-increasing strategical opportunities to land-power as against sea-power. It is evident that the Heartland is as real a physical fact within the World-Island as is the World-Island itself within the Ocean, although its boundaries are not quite so clearly defined. Not until about a hundred years ago, however, was there available a base of man-power sufficient to begin to threaten the liberty of the world from within this citadel of the World-Island.
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