Strategists

Halford J. Mackinder 

(1861 – 1947, British) 

... was a geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. 

His Heartland Theory and more generally classical geopolitics and geostrategy were extremely influential in the making of British and American strategic policies.

The World Island, comprising the interlinked continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe (Afro-Eurasia).

預言中國將成為「既非東方，也非西方的新文明」。

Alfred T. Mahan

(1840 – 1914, American)

... was a US naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the 19th century.

     His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 won immediate recognition, especially in Europe.

     With the publication of its 1892 successor, The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812, he affirmed his status as a globally-known and regarded military strategist, historian, and theorist.

Nicholas John Spykman

(1893 - 1943, American)

The Rimland is a concept championed in the early 20th century by Nicholas John Spykman, professor of international relations at Yale University.

     To him, geopolitics is the planning of the security policy of a country in terms of its geographical factors. He described the maritime fringe of a country or continent; in particular the densely populated western, southern, and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent.

Sources: Wikipedia