Geopolitics of India and Greater India (1943) by Dr S.Srikanta Sastri the axis had possessed and it was secret because the democracies had never used it�. Global war and its aftermath have finally driven home to the democracies the awareness of geographical facts arrived in terms of geopolitics for which Renner pleaded. Geopolitics was implied in every major decision arrived at in the top level Allied Nations conferences which determined the overall strategy of the campaigns of 1942-1945.
The rise of American interest in geopolitics coincided with increase This was in India of India
in American interest in the geopolitics of India. the period when a heated controversy was going on over the Muslim League's demand for the partition on the basis of religion. This issue had serious
geopolitical overtones. Many people in India and outside argued that separate Muslim State in India was not viable. Dr. Srikantha Sastri naturally pleaded that vivisection of India should be prevented. Both the supporters and the opponents of the partition of India swore on the basis of geopolitics. The Indian Nationalists always believed the proposal of Pakistan was an imperial strategy to weaken India. Several imperial writers suggested that the area of Pakistan was a strategic area and access to this region provided many advantages especially against a future war against Soviet Russia. It
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statesmen with specific policy prescriptions, setting forth where it is appropriate to use such tools as military force, economic and military assistance, or covert operations. Rather geopolitical concepts offer a global framework within which both grand strategy and specific policies can be formulated and implemented.
As Mackinder so keenly recognised over 60 years ago democracies often succumb to the temptation of basing their www.srikanta-sastri.org
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