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The Art of Geopolitics w/ Stratfor

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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Mc Kinder's Theory of Manpower

Mc kinder came up with the term man power as a measure of conomic capacity. Do you think that his theories are still cause you mention specifically, and i thought this was a great point? That he was thinking in terms of late 18 hundred technology. So the railroad was the thing that he was thinking about the most. I'm declaring the end of the hartland thesis, not necessarily because of technology. A territory is terr tory. Geography still matters. Place still matters. Missiles, space have altered it. But i think the most fundamental alteration has been the change in the arctic climate. Russia is no longer hemmed in by ice. On the north r

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