TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Robert D. TI - The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate SN - 9780345545367 U1 - 320.12 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Political geography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-378) and index; From Bosnia to Baghdad -- The revenge of geography -- Herodotus and his successors -- The Eurasian map -- The Nazi distortion -- The Rimland thesis -- The allure of sea power -- The "crisis of room" -- The geography of European divisions -- Russia and the independent heartland -- The geography of Chinese power -- India's geographical dilemma -- The Iranian pivot -- The former Ottoman Empire -- Braudel, Mexico, and grand strategy ER -