"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Monsoon

Just got Robert Kaplan's new book in the mail from Amazon, Monsoon, about the importance of the Indian Ocean to the geopolitical balance of the 21st Century between the U.S., Islam, India and China.  Kaplan is one of the very best of what might be called "political travel" writers.   This book looks to be just as good as the three earlier books of his I've read:  Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts and Imperial Grunts, about the modern American Navy and Army, respectively; and The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War.   I will post some comments on the book as I get further into it.
 

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