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Sweet god, Castex!
I'm in the final chapter, eight pages from the end, and at last he shows his true colours in writing...
Thanks to fortunate circumstances and, especially, to the mastery of the sea, our continent has managed to escape domination by any single power. Supposing, however, that one of the troublemakers of the past had succeeded in bending Europe to its yoke, power would have at least remained in the hands of those members of the human family best suited by their superior culture and mentality to exercise it.
We have seen worse possibilities. We have seen attempts to overwhelm the white Western world by Asian or African barbarism. Our race, humanity's leaders, has several times been on the verge of engulfment by huge waves that would drown all civilization and progess. . . .
Castex, Raoul (Admiral)
1994 Strategic Theories, ed. Eugenia Kiesling. Naval Institue Press, Maryland.
Thanks to fortunate circumstances and, especially, to the mastery of the sea, our continent has managed to escape domination by any single power. Supposing, however, that one of the troublemakers of the past had succeeded in bending Europe to its yoke, power would have at least remained in the hands of those members of the human family best suited by their superior culture and mentality to exercise it.
We have seen worse possibilities. We have seen attempts to overwhelm the white Western world by Asian or African barbarism. Our race, humanity's leaders, has several times been on the verge of engulfment by huge waves that would drown all civilization and progess. . . .
Castex, Raoul (Admiral)
1994 Strategic Theories, ed. Eugenia Kiesling. Naval Institue Press, Maryland.
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1) Arabs
2) Mongols
3) Turks
4) Huns (?)
I suppose that would count as enough, for his purposes. Although none of those conflicts were won due to sea power, I must point out!
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Ironically, he seemed to side a bit with germany, in seeing the Japanese as the 'civilized exception', to an extent, to general Asian barbarianism. "Only Japan does not have its place marked in the Western plan as a factor of order in the presence of Asuiatic disorder."
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