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Book: Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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  1. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    Geography does not determine individual character, but it does matter.
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  2. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.
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  3. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    another case of America becoming a network of massive city-states more intimately interconnected with other continents than with their own hinterlands
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  4. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    This is an older history being taught here, not the one often taught in schools and universities now, in which the story of the West is reduced to atrocity and little more. It is true that historical research is necessary to defeat jingoistic nationalism. The more history we know, the more complex the story of our past becomes and the more realistic we can be about it. But without some kind of usable past, there is no possibility of affecting geopolitics for the good. How do we know where to go if we can't draw upon some inspiration from the past? There is too much destruction coming out of the academy, not enough inspiration. We require a proper balance.
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  5. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    America is fated to lead. That is the judgment of geography as it has played out over the past two and a half centuries.
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  6. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    The American narrative is morally unresolvable because the society that saved humanity in the great conflicts of the twentieth century was also a society built on enormous crimes-slavery and the extinction of the native inhabitants.
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  7. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    This is to be a landscape meditation about America's place in the world.
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  8. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone, or else we will hunt you down wherever you are.
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  9. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
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  10. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    What destroyed the Indian was not primarily political greed, land hunger, or military power, not the white man's germs or the white man's rum. What destroyed him was the manufactured products of a culture, iron and steel, guns, needles, woolen cloth, things that once possessed could not be done without."19
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  11. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    The middle class for a long time now has been slowly dissolving into a working class precariously on the verge of slipping into outright poverty, and also in the other direction into a smaller, upper-middle, global elite.
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  12. Robert D. Kaplan _ Earning the Rockies: How

    While our land forces are for unpredictable contingencies, our sea and air forces secure the global commons. The navy is our away team: its operations tempo around the world is the same, whether in peacetime or wartime. So crucial is our navy that were just one of America's eleven aircraft carriers sunk or disabled by an enemy combatant, it would constitute a national disaster in strategic and reputational terms as devastating as 9/11. Manifest Destiny, the conquest of a continent with its unleashing of vast economic wealth and national will, reaches a point of concision here at Naval Base San Diego. It is a fitting end to my journey.
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