Has anyone read this book? How is it? Also, anyone else got

Thucydides is a classic.

But it's awful dry at times.

>>8458380
I read it six months ago. I liked it but I don't remember anything about it now.

Kissinger's book On China was fascinating because he talks about his own visit to China.

I also liked Monsoon by Robert Kaplan, which focuses on the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. He actually travels to each place he talks about, so there's decent travel writing mixed in with the geopolitical analysis.

if you want to understand the Atlantic ruling class ideology you got to go back to the classic geopolitics of sea power and the response

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Influence_of_Sea_Power_upon_History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_J._Spykman

modern ideology is laid out in the Wolfowitz Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine

>>8459052
Thanks a lot, mate. Will certainly look into these. Out of interest, where did you learn this? University?

>>8459052
Great links