The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy

Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141983837
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Mackinder’s stress upon the importance of the ‘heartland’, later taken up with enthusiasm by Haushofer and the Nazi geopoliticians, and somewhat discredited as a consequence, is probably too simple, one-sided and deterministic to be accepted in its entirety today; but the broad outlines of his argument were prescient and compel the closest attention. Certainly, his audience at the Royal Geographical Society was impressed by this unusually wide-ranging paper. One of them, Leo Amery, ventured to go further and, while not laying stress so specifically upon central Asia, elaborated one aspect of Mackinder’s message in even clearer power-political terms:

Sea power alone, if it is not based on great industry, and has not a great population behind it, is too weak for offence to really maintain itself in the world struggle … both the sea and the railway are going in the future … to be supplemented by the air as a means of locomotion, and when we come to that … the successful powers will be those who have the greatest industrial base. It will not matter whether they are in the centre of a continent or on an island; those people who have the industrial power and the power of invention and of science will be able to defeat all others.16

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