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The Grand Chessboard
Brzezinski is familiarly precinct, efficient and far reaching. In this book he puts on display his characteristically deep analytic skills on a topic he has spent many years as a professional strategist and lecturer. Though at the time of its publishing, when the world was in a much more optimistic mood and globalism was on the march, his approach seemed to hark back to a bygone era, nowadays in this time of hawkish politics, he does not seem to be that far off the mark. His rationalism should not be confused with the views of the current ideologues on the right though.
Certainly, his take on US [power], and its logic of inevitability, may not be that acceptable to some, but still, it only reflects reality, not necessarily a moral judgment. Regardless, rather than simply focusing on and explaining the present based on recent past, like many professional talking heads do, he has actually made some bold projections into far future.
He points at Asia as the center of this grand chess game and concludes it is there where the final moves will be played out. With his excellent knowledge of Eastern Europe, Russia and Far East, he makes an excellent argument.
His few attempts at placing Middle East and Islam in the picture fall far short though; he fails to go beyond worn-out clichés. When was the last time an Islamic revolution got exported anywhere, really?
This is a valuable and interesting book reveals much about super-power strategic thinking process, written very clearly, and I added the last star for his efforts to draw a map of the future geo-politics. Highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics.
Amazon.com: Alaturka's review of The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And...
Does it go into the economics of slavery? yeah somewhat economic, it goes a lot into comparing the different regions and how each work force is different. KInd of like a day to day!
" Nothing Like it in the World" by Stephen Ambrose.
It's about the building of the transcontinental railroad.
I just read Slavery In Colonial America 1619 to 1776 by Betty Woods.
Kind of boring but I had to read it for a class but it was interesting, learn something new everyday about slavery and colonial times.
You happen to read anything about the millions of Irish slaves the Brits shipped to the islands?
That's one of history's greatest seldom told crimes against humanity.
This is fascinating. I'll need to read up on this. We went to Jamestown and this was never mentioned.
They didn't mostly end up in the colonies that became the USA, that's probably why.
But Alex Hamilton might been the son of one of those who were transported to the Island as a slave.
The Scots and even more the Irish were treated horribly by their British masters.
While you were reading about slavery, what did they tell you about so called indentured servants?
They were basically nothing but white slaves, too, ya' know.
Most early stock Americans of English, German, Scots and Irish decent are probably also decended from people who were basically little more slaves for the Anglo aristos which basically controlled the colonies from the getgo.
They didn't mostly end up in the colonies that became the USA, that's probably why.
But Alex Hamilton might been the son of one of those who were transported to the Island as a slave.
The Scots and even more the Irish were treated horribly by their British masters.
While you were reading about slavery, what did they tell you about so called indentured servants?
They were basically nothing but white slaves, too, ya' know.
Most early stock Americans of English, German, Scots and Irish decent are probably also decended from people who were basically little more slaves for the Anglo aristos which basically controlled the colonies from the getgo.