About the book: 2017 / You have heard the term “geopolitics” many times. And now you can understand exactly what it is. The book by one of the founders of geopolitics, American Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan talks about what steps the British took over two centuries to move other states away from maritime trade, and therefore from power over the world .Sea power still plays a leading role in the world today. The US and British fleets sail throughout the world's oceans, control trade routes and can strike with missiles or planes at any country in the world. At the same time, sharply reducing the threat to one’s own country precisely with the help of one’s fleet. The answers to many questions on the modern agenda will become obvious if one knows the “rules of the game.” Mahan's book is a set of rules, playing by which the Anglo-Saxons conquered the world. Geopolitics is a word that explains many of the events that are happening. And here is her very first textbook…