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"Who rules East Europe controls the heartland:
Who rules the heartland commands the World-Island:
Who rules the World-Island commands the World"

Sun Tzu "He who fights with full knowledge of these factors is certain to win; he who does not will surely be defeated."'

At the strategic level, however, mistakes tend to live forever - or at least until the war changes in two respects: first, the coalition of the participants; second, by radical change in war aims.