Great Powers

In a short paragraph or two, post on this module’s discussion board a response to this prompt: If there is in fact a “Revenge of Geography” (see Anne Marie Slaughter’s review of Kaplan’s work, above), what are your thoughts and ideas, and concerns, on today’s and tomorrow’s specific implications of geography – physical and human – on the use and utility of force for ‘power’ purposes?

Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Power Shifts,” Book Review of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, (05 October 2012), The New York Times
Colin S. Gray, “In Defense of the Heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and His Critics a Hundred Years On,” Comparative Strategy 23, no. 1 (2004), 9-25 in Taylor & Francis (PDF)
David Fromkin, “The Great Game in Asia.” Foreign Affairs 58, no. 4 (1980), 936-951 in JSTOR, (15pp) [Database] (PDF)
Readings for case study on “Conflation of Force & Power” (Case Examination: COIN):

Wilson III, Isaiah. “Beyond COIN” The American Interest (Sept 2013)