Geopolitics and geostrategy Books ; HISTORY Author: A. E. Vandam (Edrichin) Name: Geopolitics and Geostrategy : Field of the Year: 2002 Format: doc Size: The collection includes two works of the Russian scientist, officer, military intelligence officer Alexei Efimovich Vandam (Edrikhin) (1867 - 1933): Our Position and The Greatest of the Arts (Review of the Present Situation in the Light of the Highest Strategy), in which he analyzes Russian history from a geopolitical point of view, as well as Letters on the Transvaal (Notes on the Anglo-Boer War). “It is bad to have an Anglo-Saxon as an enemy, but God forbid to have him as a friend.” " A. E. Vandam . As a military thinker Alexei Efimovich Vandam (Edrikhin) is not accidentally forgotten His extensive and acute comparative analysis of the history of the state strategy (the highest strategy according to Vandam terminology) of Russia and Great Britain until the First World War was “forgotten” not because his position can be disputed and clarified on some issues. It seems that this was done with the intention that in science and journalism their condemnation should not be at all. The method of historical oblivion is the most insidious and effective in the fight against those thinkers whose critical spread does not avert, but, on the contrary, arouses public interest in their work, the problems raised by them. So did his opponents, the lack of which he did not have and will not have, since his opponents are not personal and shop properties. They are enemies of Russia, and she, as a great state, has always been and will never be transferred. "The main enemy of the Anglo-Saxons on the way to world domination is the Russian people .. Its complete distance from the world trade routes, t. e. the sea, and the harsh climate of the country doom him to poverty and the inability to develop his business energy Consequently, obeying the laws of nature, racial instinct, he irresistibly strives towards the south, leading the offensive with both ends of his long front line. " A. E. Vandam . com 85