The purpose for this series is twofold: First, to explain the role of energy in geopolitics to stakeholders in the oil and natural gas industries, and, concordantly, to elucidate the logic behind American foreign policy in the post-9/11 Global War on Terror (GWOT) era for those who were deployed overseas and are puzzled by the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The more one understands the history of post-Mahan “sea power-versus-sea power” and post-Mackinder “sea power-versus-land power” geopolitical strategies, the more one will understand the continual conflict zones of Eastern Europe and other key areas of the post-colonial Eurasian perimeter.
That includes the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the other countries that retired General Wesley Clark discussed repeatedly in his 2007 presidential campaign; in which he claimed that there had been a “foreign policy coup” in the US that needed to be brought to light and discussed in a democratic forum.