I greatly appreciate Robert Kaplan's inviting me to respond to his new essay, “The Return of Marco Polo's World and the U.S. Military Response,” which has already—and deservedly—generated considerable discussion and debate among the global commentariat. A consistent iconoclast and an instinctive systems-level thinker, Kaplan belongs to a dying breed of analysts who compel us to probe the full spectrum of interdependencies in world affairs—between geographic realities, security threats, regional dynamics, and so forth.
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