He barely touches on these current issues and presents geography as a defining factor even today. Now armies have drones and a single guy with a computer can “play” Ender’s game (good book, I recommend it).įor Western countries geography played a very important role so far, but, in the last 20 years, we’ve had the rise of internet and social media. The rebels, who won in Spain, had a similar number of people in their army. Compare that to the Spanish civil war, when, after 3 years of conflict, their army was about 1,200,000 soldiers, more than 4 times the size. Add some few thousands from different other brigades, the total is well under 300,000. For example, the civil war in Syria rages from 2011, and in 2019, according to wikipedia, there were 142,000 people in the government’s army. While I think his points were very interesting and intriguing when it comes to historical issues, today all countries posses long range weaponry which make the need for foot soldiers mostly pointless. He mentions nuclear capability of different countries, but he always assumes that countries will not press the button and would think of armed invasions passing over the mountain range. Long story short, he ignores the internet, nuclear war, and social media. I was a bit disappointed after I read it, but, even so, I would still recommend it and I gave it 3.5 stars. The subtitle of the book is Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics, so it sounded pretty interesting. I saw the review for it on Kelly’s blog, I’ve decided to reserve the book at the library. I had the Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall on my to-read list for a while.
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