But geography, and the history of how nations have established themselves within that geography, remains crucial to our understanding of the world today and to our future. The conflict in Iraq and Syria is rooted in colonial powers ignoring the rules of geography, whereas the Chinese occupation of Tibet is rooted in obeying them. America’s global foreign policy is dictated by them, and even the power projection of the last superpower standing can only mitigate the rules that nature, or God, handed down. What are those rules? The place to begin is in the land where power is hard to defend, and
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