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WITHIN the compass of a small volume Dr. Vaughan Cornish has tried, not unsuccessfully, to crowd many ideas. He describes the great States of the world as regards their sources of men and materials, and the lines of communication by which force can be concentrated. His point of view is often fresh and always geographical. The distribution of the British Empire is described, not by continents, but by oceans. The old system merely emphasises the gaps in continuity of the Empire. Dr. Cornish's method indicates an appreciation of the ocean as a highway linking together the component parts of the Empire. But land routes may also be of importance. In his treatment of Asia Dr. Cornish insists on the strategic value of southern Turkestan and northern Afghanistan as the eventual crossing-place of the chief lines of traffic from Moscow to Delhi, and from Constantinople, Cairo, and Bagdad to Pekin.
The Strategic Geography of the Great Powers.
(Based on a Lecture delivered during 1917 to Officers of the Grand Fleet and of the British Armies in France.) By Dr. Vaughan Cornish. Pp. viii + 114. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd., 1918,) 2s. net.
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The Strategic Geography of the Great Powers . Nature 102, 164 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102164a0
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