I’m a big fan of Marshall’s books on the influence of geography on our political decisions, and here he takes on a topic dear to my heart: the exploration and colonization and, oh yes, the militarization of space. It turns out there is a lot going on on low earth orbit, not to mention the…
Note: I read this book in 2016, the year after it was published. Given current events, I decided to reread Chapter 1: Russia. Russia is vast, writes Marshall. It is the vastest. Immense. It is six-million-square-miles vast, eleven time zones vast; it is the largest country in the world... To the west of the Ural…
Read more If only the Urals ran from the Baltic to the Black Sea.