Word: eurasia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, the rest of us study international relations. We know that wars are never permanent, and neither are alliances. Both wars and alliances shift back and forth. Enemies become friends. Friends become enemies. Every two or three decades, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia go through another cycle...
Thus Winston Smith '67 can feel reassured. Within nineteen years from now, let us say, the current cycle will end. Oceania and Eastasia will become friends. Together we will fight the new enemy, Eurasia...
...goods-and their ills-between China and the Mideastern Parthian empire (with the Roman dominions beyond). The opening of the silk road effected what Historian William McNeill calls the "closure of the ecumene"-his term for the great community of civilization, thus linked together across the land mass of Eurasia from extreme East to farthest West. From that time or even earlier, there have been no entirely independent civilizations...
...Excepting the American beginnings made by the Mayans and Incas, where cultural contact with Eurasia, across the Pacific, was early and slight...
...known numbers of ICBMs and go a long way toward bridging any missile gap. They will open a new sea frontier along the 6,000-mile stretch of Indian Ocean where the U.S. now has no bases. They will be at home along the long Arctic coastline of Eurasia. By 1965, the Navy plans a fleet of 45 FBM submarines-30 on station at a time around the Eurasian land mass. And by 1965 Red Raborn plans to extend Polaris' range to 2,500 miles per missile...