Drawing, left:  Makinder's Geographical Pivot of History
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:   Ian Morris, Stanford & Stratfor.com; in re: Halford Makinder [pron: MAK-inder] and the geography of modern history.  (1 of 2)
The Geographical Pivot of History, sometimes known simply as the Pivot of History, is a geostrategic theory, also known as Heartland Theory. "The Geographical Pivot of History" was an article submitted by Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society that advanced his Heartland Theory. In this article, Mackinder extended the scope of geopolitical analysis to encompass the entire globe. According to Mackinder, the Earth's land surface was divisible into:
•       The World-Island, comprising the interlinked continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. This was the largest, most populous, and richest of all possible land combinations.
•       The offshore islands, including the British Isles and the islands of Japan.
•       The outlying islands, including the continents of North America, South America, and Australia.
The Heartland lay at the centre of the world island, stretching from the Volga to the Yangtze and from the Himalayas to the Arctic. Mackinder's Heartland was the area then ruled by the Russian Empire and after that by the Soviet Union, minus the Kamchatka Peninsula region.
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block B: Ian Morris, Stanford & Stratfor.com; in re: Halford Makinder [pron: MAK-inder] and the geography of modern history.  (2 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block C: Ian Urbina, NYT, in re:  Outlaw ocean Part II of II.  (segment 1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block D: Ian Urbina, NYT, in re:  Outlaw ocean Part II of II.  (segment 2 of 2)
Hour Two
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Oriana Pawlyk, Early Bird editor & MilitaryTimes web reporter (@Oriana0214); in re: The new Cold War (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 2, Block B: Oriana Pawlyk, Early Bird editor & MilitaryTimes web reporter (@Oriana0214); in re: The new Cold War (2 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:  Col Michael Bob Starr, USAF, in re: B-1 over Mesopotamia (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  Col Michael Bob Starr, USAF, in re: B-1 over Mesopotamia (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:  Gil Stein, University of Chicago and Archaeology magazine, in re: ISIS destroys heritages.  (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 3, Block B: Gil Stein, University of Chicago and Archaeology magazine, in re: ISIS destroys heritages.  (2 of 2)
SYRIAN HERITAGE INITIATIVE   http://www.asor-syrianheritage.org
 
The ASOR Cultural Heritage Initiatives (American Schools of Oriental Research = ASOR) implements cultural property protection by:
      (1) Documenting damage
      (2) Promoting global awareness
      (3) Planning emergency and post-war responses
----using latest technology (sat images) and basic humint  to figure out what's going on with ISIS and massive cultural destruction in Mesopotamia
 
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Richard Brookhiser, WSJ Op-Ed, in re: Alexander Hamilton updated.  (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 3, Block D: Richard Brookhiser, WSJ Op-Ed, in re: Alexander Hamilton updated.  (2 of 2)
 
Hour Four
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Richard Epstein, Hoover, NYU, University of Chicago, in re:  ACA and taxes (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Richard Epstein, Hoover, NYU, University of Chicago, in re:  ACA and taxes (2 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Joseph Rago, WSJ editorial, in re: ACA failures (1 of 2)
Friday  1 January 2016 / Hour 4, Block D: Joseph Rago, WSJ editorial, in re: ACA failures (2 of 2)
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