Tom Bilyeu

a piece of paper written by a British geographer back in 1904.

His name was Halford Mackinder and what he published in 1904 was one of the most important and least talked about strategic documents in modern history and it continues to echo to this day, controlling behavior that most people simply do not understand.

Mackinder looked at the world and saw something that basically everybody had missed.

For centuries, the tiny island of Britain had managed to dominate the globe by ensuring that they had the largest navy so that they could control the seas.

Given that trade happened on the seas back in the day, it didn't matter how big your country was.

It mattered how powerful your navy was.

As an island nation, Britain understood that that was the only way for them to dominate the world.

And dominate they did.

At their height, they literally controlled all of global trade.

They controlled the open sea, the shipping lanes, the choke points, the ports.

If you wanted to move goods or armies, you had to put them on a boat.

And if you put them on a boat, you had to deal with the British Navy.

But railroads...

were going to change everything and they knew it.

For the first time in human history, you could move enormous quantities of goods and soldiers across land faster than ships could carry them by sea.

And that meant that whoever could unite the great Eurasian landmass, the stretch of territory running from Eastern Europe through Russia,

through the middle east all the way to china would have access to a combined pool of energy manufacturing capacity and population that no navy in the world could blockade or stop now mckinder knew

England's an island, so it's gotta have some solution.

Mackinder called this territory the Heartland, and his warning was blunt.

If any power ever manages to unite it, the game is over for whoever controls the seas.