{"id":12150,"date":"2020-01-16T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T23:09:15","slug":"strategika-issue-62-is-the-mediterranean-still-geo-strategically-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-62-is-the-mediterranean-still-geo-strategically-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 62: Is the Mediterranean Still Geo-strategically Essential?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Is The Mediterranean Still Geo-Strategically Essential?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Barry Strauss\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mediterranean Sea is today, as it has always been, a crossroads. The name itself testifies to that, as it means \u201cthe sea in the middle of the earth,\u201d a Latin term reflecting an earlier Greek belief. We know better, or do we? From Syria to Libya and on the high seas, and with outside players including China, Iran, Russia, and the United States, the Mediterranean has re-emerged of late as a cockpit of conflict.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/mediterranean-still-geo-strategically-essential\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Wrong Side Of The Pillars Of Hercules: The Mediterranean Just Doesn\u2019t Matter Much Anymore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Ralph Peters in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is an Atlantic and Pacific power by virtue of geography, strategic necessity, and economic opportunity. A forward defense of the far littorals\u2014Europe and the East-Asian barrier states facing China\u2014is the essential requirement for our security. All else is not only secondary or tertiary, but often an ill-advised and grossly costly drain on our resources.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/wrong-side-pillars-hercules-mediterranean-just-doesnt-matter-much-anymore\">Read the full article here<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Europe\u2019s Mediterranean Frontier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Angelo M. Codevilla in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mediterranean abruptly separates Europe\u2019s civilization from those of Africa and the Middle East. On one side, reaching North to Scandinavia and East to the Bering Strait, some seven hundred million mostly prosperous people live according to principles derived from Judeo-Christianity, Greek philosophy, and Roman law. Their number is shrinking.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/europes-mediterranean-frontier\">Read the full article here<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is The Mediterranean Still Geo-Strategically Essential? Please read a new essay by my colleague, Barry Strauss\u00a0in Strategika. The Mediterranean Sea is today, as it has always been, a crossroads. The name itself testifies to that, as it means \u201cthe sea in the middle of the earth,\u201d a Latin term reflecting an earlier Greek belief. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-39Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12681,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-68-crisis-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/","url_meta":{"origin":12150,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #68: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Turkey In The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis Please read a new essay by my colleague, Soner Cagaptay\u00a0in Strategika. 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