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Earning the Rockies
by Robert D. Kaplan
A drive across America to understand how geography made its power and its role abroad. Travel essay with strategic conclusions.
Read it if…
you want American geopolitics from the road.
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Skip it if…
you want Washington analysis.
Try instead: Prisoners of Geography →
Three things you will actually use
- Continental scale is power.
- The frontier shaped policy.
- Drive the country.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the plains.
Our verdict
Kaplan's America.
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