We have to recognize that geographic localization seems to have definitively lost its strategic value and, inversely, that this same value is attributed to the delocalization of the vector, of a vector in permanent movement-no matter if this movement is aerial, spatial, underwater or underground. All that counts is the speed of the moving body and the undetectability of its path.
From the war of movement of mechanized forces, we reach the strategy of Brownian movements, a kind of chronological and pendular war that revives ancient popular and geographic warfare by a geostrategic homogenization of the globe. This homogenization was already announced in the nineteenth century, notably by the Englishman Mackinder in his theory of the "World-Island, " in which Europe, Asia and Africa would compose a single continent to the detriment of the Americas-a theory that seems to have come to fruition today with the disqualification of localizations. But we should note that the indiferentiation of geostrategic positions is not the only efect of vectorial performances, for after the homogenization sought and finally acquired by naval and aerial imperialism, strategic spatial miniaturization is now the order of the day.
In 1 9 5 5 General Chassin stated, "The fact that the earth is round has not been sufficiently studied from the military point of view. " No sooner said than done. But in the b allistic progress of weapons, the curvature of the earth has not stopped shrinking. It is no longer the continents that become agglomerated, but the totality of the planet that is diminished, depending on the progress of the arms "race . " The continental translation that, curiously enough, we find both in the geophysician Wegener, with the drift of land masses , and in Mackinder, with the geopolitical amalgam of lands, has given way to a world wide phenomenon of terrestrial and technological contraction that today makes us penetrate into an artificial topological universe: the direct encoun<sub>�</sub>er of every surface on the globe.
The State of Emergency
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