India, May 31 -- Strengthening Quad cooperation is vital for safeguarding Indo-Pacific stability amid intensifying strategic competition with China

Traditional geopolitics is based on two competing theories, the first that of control over the seas being vital for domination of the world. Not surprisingly, it was an Admiral of the US Fleet who came up with the theory, Admiral Mahan. The other is a theory discredited through its use by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) to justify its conquests. The theory is that a people need living space (Lebensraum) within the space dominated by it (Grossraum). Mahan is out of date, for today it is not domination of the seas but domination of technology that makes a country eligible to ...