American officials would be happy to use talks to explain how geography, force-ratios and the laws of physics mean that neither the Czech radar, nor the handful of unarmed Polish interceptor rockets, remotely threaten Russia's vast nuclear arsenal.
Geography forces the tankers carrying much of the world's oil supply to pass through one or more of three narrow straits -- the entrances to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Malacca between Indonesia and Malaysia.
Iran is a powerful presence by its geography, military force, history and civil society's influence.
It's a dilemma that the strife-torn region doesn't seem ready to address just yet, but it's one that geography may force it to deal with in the coming decades.
Jorge Santibáñez, president of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana, Mexico, argues that geography also forces the mid-west's Mexicans to be more organised.
Beyond geography, the military force that "saved Western civilization" was the Soviet Union's; 80 percent of German military casualties in the war were inflicted on the Eastern Front.
Daesh (ISIS,ISIL,IS), al-Qaeda and related groups, although scattered apparently all over the world and capable of sporadic waves of terror, amplified by the hyperventilating media, essentially remain limited in number, geography and military force.
I show that the second approach won out as Greenland's exceptional geography and environment forced the US military to reassess its relationship with nature: rather than striving for control over the island space, US military personnel ultimately chose strategic cooperation with that space.
Regardless of whether genetics, biology or geography is the driving force in creating who, as a species, we are, history has shown that man chooses to live free and that totalitarian regimes, no matter how attractive they make that form of government to its citizens, will eventually fall.
Ms. Armstrong, best known for "A History of God," is a scholar and a former nun with a genius for presenting religions as products of temporal forces — like geography, culture and economics — without minimizing the workings of transcendent spiritual forces.
You set little targets, some forced by geography, some self-imposed.
