The influence of sea power on history. With a preface by Nikolai Starikov

You have repeatedly heard the term "geopolitics". And now you can understand exactly what it is. The book of one of the founders of geopolitics, the American Admiral Alfred Taier Mahen talks about what steps the British took for two centuries to move away from naval trade, and therefore from power over the world, other states. Sea power and today plays a leading role in the world. The Fleet of the United States and Great Britain walks all over the world ocean, controls trade routes and can strike with rockets or aircraft on any country in the world. At the same time, sharply reducing the threat of one’s own country precisely with the help of its fleet. Answers many questions from the modern agenda will become obvious if you know the "rules of the game". Mahen’s book is a set of rules, playing by which the Anglo -Saxons crushed the world for themselves. Geopolitics is a word that explains many events. And in front of you is her very first textbook