Great Britain & Japan in (super) Brief...

A couple of months ago I (remembered I had this blog and...) posed the topic of comparing/contrasting the site, situation and grand strategies of Great Britain and Japan. Then, I promptly forgot about the blog again. Well not quite, putting something together on the subject is pretty easy. I knew the basic outline of what I wanted to write on the subject when I posed the topic. However, I wanted to write something a little more polished. So with the perfect being the enemy of the good, and most other things in my life being the enemy of me spending cycles on this blog, the post languished unwritten.

Time to make amends. I will iterate through the salient points of the subject in bullet form with less or more commentary thrown in as needed. If nothing else, this blog will have some real content to go along with my pithy commentary... and I just ran into a new idea on China that I want to write about, but have to tackle this first to retain even a shred of credibility.


Great Britain & Japan - Insular Flank Powers
- Proximity
- Demographics & History
- Physical Geography


Western European & East Asian Continental Systems
- Size
- River Systems
- Dominant Powers


Grand Strategic Imperatives of Insular Flank Powers
1. Control local seas
2. Ensure that a continental power does not control the most adjacent portion of the land mass
3. Prevent the emergence of a dominant continental power, b) interfere with a non-dominant or declining continental power, or c) reach accommodation with a dominant continental power
4. Project power and influence beyond region


Great Britain & Japan in their respective Continental Systems
Commentary synthesizing all the above...


I have published this outline as is. With my track record, this outline would sit in the unpublished zone until then next time I remember this blog in a month or two. With any luck. I will remember it sooner and come back and insert the commentary I have in mind to tie this all together.

Oh Yeah...

I just remembered that I have this blog thing. Anyway, over this coming weekend I am going to throw some ideas up here on the comparative site/situation, histories and resultant grand strategies of England/Great Britain and Japan.

...or then again, maybe I'll just forget and you all won't hear from me again for a couple of months.

Where to Begin?

It is said (paraphrased anyway) that a liberal arts education is a horrible thing to waste. Anyway, here I am almost 20 years into a career in IT totally wasting mine. This could be a place to ponder the implications and intersections of history, geography, economics, and politics that I found so facinating when I was in school, but don't come up so much on a late-night netwok remediation call.

Here's to the ride that I have in mind for these pages over the months that come. (And with any luck this won't be the only post that makes it up here!)