The book also includes remarkable chapters on "The New Great Game" played by the oil companies, which wanted pipelines from Central Asia to the Pakistan coast, leading to sleazy dealings with the Taliban to safeguard the route through Afghanistan.
Though mostly silent about their preparations, Indian officials confirmed that they planned to deploy more than 10,000 police officers, as well as members of India's security forces, to safeguard the route here.
His department has suggested changes to the air licensing policy to safeguard the route.
All these involvements have sprung, in one way or another, from China's economic interests, be it to safeguard trade routes or to create opportunities for mainland firms to operate globally.
But Iran has claimed the naval destroyers are part of an anti-piracy effort to "safeguard naval routes for vessels in the region".
The British squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew sought to eliminate the Dutch in an effort to safeguard the trade route with China, which ran through the Straits of Malacca and were in range of Dutch raiders operating from the principal Javan port of Batavia.
America argues that to safeguard those vital routes of commerce, any territorial quarrels should be settled according to international law, not by force and intimidation.
Borrowing from Patagonia Inc.'s visionary Freedom to Roam campaign, in which the protection of corridors for wide ranging terrestrial species is being advocated, we are calling our effort to safeguard salmon migration routes the Freedom to Roam Home initiative.
20 The programme teaches emergency responders how to apply basic strategies to safeguard their safety en route to a medical scene, while operating on roadways, as well as departing a scene.
Safeguarded within these monuments are Native American archaeological sites, the historic gold mining town of Hart, historic Route 66, and World War II tank training grounds.
