Mahan’s Next 100 Years

He can perhaps be regarded, alongside Mackinder (1861-1947) and Spykman (1893-1943), as one of the three founding fathers of geopolitics, but Alfred T. Mahan (1840-1914) – remembered mainly as a brilliant proponent and pioneer of modern naval strategy – also drew upon a deep understanding of world history to make some eerily accurate guesses at what the future might hold. This feels like a good time to look back on some of the predictions he made.