3 Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Era of U.S. Security Policy Will Be Dominated by the Navy,” Washington Post, March 13, 2019.
4 Ben Kesling, “U.S. Refocuses on Pacific to Check China Ambitions,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2019.
Chapter 19. Northern Mexico by Way of Central America, 2010–2013
1 These were men who had developed pulmonary and other medical conditions from constantly diving in deep waters for lobster.
2 Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (New York: Random House, 2012), pp. 335–36 and 340.
3 Monterey was an exception, though, with a still-vibrant economy.
4 Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography, pp. 335–36.
Epilogue: Antigua, Guatemala, May 2019
1 See John Byron Kuhner’s inspired essay on Antigua, Guatemala, and the Latin poet Rafael Landivar: “In Search of the American Virgil,” The New Criterion, February 2019.
2 Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend, trans. from the German by John E. Woods (1947; New York: Vintage, 1999), p. 232.
Illustration Credits
1Courtesy Teddy Strauss.
2Courtesy Bob Gersony.
3Bernard B. Fall Collection.
4Courtesy Jo Froman.
5Courtesy Bob Gersony.
6Courtesy Jo Froman.
7Courtesy Jo Froman.
8Courtesy Bob Gersony.
9Courtesy Bob Gersony.
10Collection of Arthur Eugene Dewey from the Palace of the King of Bhutan.
11Courtesy Bob Gersony.
12U.S. Department of State.
13Courtesy Tony Jackson.
14Courtesy State Department attorney Catherine Brown.
15Diana Walker/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images.
16Courtesy Bob Gersony.
17The Courtauld Gallery, London/Peter Barritt/Alamy Stock Photo.
18Courtesy Bob Gersony.
19Pierre Virot/Reuters.
20© Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images.
21Collection of Timothy R. Knight.
22Courtesy Gersony family.
23Courtesy Bob Gersony.
24Mike Theiler/Getty Images.
25PRESIDENCIA/AFP via Getty Images.
26Courtesy of the Office of Senator Patrick Leahy.
27Elizabeth Gersony.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN
The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government’s Greatest Humanitarian
The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Mediterranean Winter: The Pleasures of History and Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and the Peloponnese
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future
The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia
The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
About the Author
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of nineteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers.
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