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Authors of Geopolitics, Germany needs to ally with USSR and Japan(Rimland…

- - - - Land power over Sea Power
      - Inner and outer crescents vs Heartland
    - - Pre, post and columbian. (Horse, railway, navigation)
    - - RW - Russia confirms ability to resist attacks, need to balance the world island
  - - - 2nd Fleet in case of crisis, actual mahanian mentality
      - More technical, based on military power, stretch etc.
      - Problem is, aggresive doctrine bases everything on sea power which is defensive, can't be aggresive. Also, if the other country doesn't cares about sea, then it's gg.
  - - - It's more about political-diplomatic ties.
        
        Chokepoints
        
        Malacca, Suez, Panama, etc.
      - Combined land and naval operations
      - It's based on the times of peace
      - Peace strategy
  - - - 3 types of states based on geography
        
        Landlocked, island and land and sea frontiers
      - Borders are a BoP of power, a trench
      - Importance of geography
        
        Extension of territory, resources and geographical position
    - - It's amphibious
      - Has plenty resources
      - There's multiple Rimlands
  - - - Pan regions
        
        Staying in your territory, in your "soil", don't go beyond it.
        
        Breathing spells to a nation on the way to reach Lebensraum and Autarky, yet a nation wouldn't expand further when these were reached.
        
        The problem? How to define the beginning and end of an idea
- - - - Connected by shatterbealts that release energy without direct confrontation
        
        ME, APAC, SubSaharian Africa...
      - Eurasian maritime realm and Trade Dependent Maritime realm
        
        Each real has different regions with different factors. Their rerlevance change over time.
    - - Stalemate strenghtened by nuclear deterrence (46-56)
        
        USSR Penetrate in the maritime realm (57-79)
        
        USSR Retreat from maritime realm (80-91)
        
        Rollback, Reagan, Gorbachev
        
        Navy build-up multiple proxy wars
        
        NATO, SEATO, etc.
  - - - Nuclear deterrence forces system to impossibility of war
    - - Geography, technology and politics
    - - Theoretical - Explain the distribution of world power, theorizing about future configurations
      - Strategical- What changes could be possible in status quo
  - - - Tech doesn't cancels geography
      - Geopolitics is still important and applicable, but it is long-term analysis (not 50 years)
      - World is heading to multipolarism
      - Air power is important, but only temporary. Sea and land are still important
      - USSR Is destined to lose (1986)
        
        USSR is overextended
        
        Selective containment, against rollback. The USSR would fall by itself.
    - - 2 Initial ones
        
        Military resources
        
        Weapons structure, economy, administrative resources
        
        Territorial configuration
        
        Multiple heartlands, natural barriers, relations between heartlands
- - - - No denial - Geopolitics doesn't denies economics or culture nowadays. Geopolitics acts as a parallel view to issues.
  - - - Competition of resources
      - This era is different from i.e. mercantilism, more complex and it's about resources.
  - - - Meta-emotions
        
        Fear - US, EU
        
        Hope - Asia
        
        Aside from Japan who is in the West.
        
        Humiliation - ME
      - The Globalization Paradox: pervasiveness of US culture, countries of Asia taking the economic lead
- - - - Anti BMs
        
        MIRVs
    - - 3 stages: Direct defense, Deliberate escalation, General nuclear response
  - - - Direct vs. Extended deterrence (own and other territory)
  - - - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
        SALT I (1972) SALT II (1979)
        
        SALT II never ratified
    - - No more than 6000 nukes and 1600 BM
    - - Non-proliferation, disarmament and peaceful use of nuclear energy