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Leaders and publics with distorted or limited mental maps of geography often make flawed strategic choices—overestimating distances, misjudging terrain advantages, or misunderstanding spatial relationships between nations. Classic examples include Hitler's miscalculation of Soviet depth, the U.S. Vietnam strategy shaped by the "domino theory" spatial metaphor, and many modern border disputes fueled by differing geographical narratives.Better geographical awareness generally leads to more realistic risk assessment and diplomatic outcomes.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1w0db9v https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2018.1503893 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/geography-and-strategy/

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