Strategy, Political Science, National & International Security, Military 

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.Divided into theory and practice sections, this volume covers the big names such as Mackinder, Mahan and Haushofer, as well as looking back at the vital influence of weather and geography on naval power in the long age of sail (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). It also looks forward to the consequences of the revival of geopolitics in post-Soviet Russia and the new space-based field of "astropolitics". - from Amzon 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

II Why Geopolitic? Geoffrey Sloan and Colins S. Gray ...................................p. 1

1. Geopolitical Theory And Strategy: The Word And The History Of Ideas
2. Sir Halford Mackinder: The Heartland Theory
Then And Now Geofrey Sloan ....................................................................P. 15

3. Alfred Thayer Mahan, Geopolitician Jon Sumida ...................................P. 39

4. Air Power, Space Power, And Geography Benjamin S. Lambeth ..............P. 63

5. Geography In The Space Age: An Astropolitical
Analysis Everett C. Dolman .......................................................................P. 83

6. Understanding Critical Geopolitics: Geopolitics And
Risk Security Gearoid O. Tuathail .............................................................P. 107

7. Geopolitics: International Bounderies As Fighting
Places Ewan W. Anderson .......................................................................P. 125

8. Information Power: Strategy, Geopolitics And The Fifth
Dimension David J. Lonsdale ...................................................................P. 137

II Geography and Strategy: Geopolitics in Action
9. Inescapable Geography Colins S. Gray ..............................................P. 161

10. Weather, Geography And Naval Power In The Age Of
Sail N.A. M. Rodger ................................................................................P. 178

11. Some Thoughts On War And Geography Williams Murray .....................P. 201

12. Geopolitik: Haushofer, Hitler And Lebensraum Hogler H. Herwig ...........P. 218

13. ‘Russia Will Not Be Trifled With’:Geopolitical Facts
And Fantasies John Erickson ....................................................................P. 242