The quarter-century that has passed since the end of the Second World War has witnessed remarkable progress in aviation and missile missiles and the use of nuclear energy on a large scale, and two great powers were singled out in the theater.
Both of them, namely the western camp led by the United States of America and the eastern camp led by the Soviet Union, became an extraordinary force with which the strategy of geographical locations changed.
They have ocean-going missiles, and they have atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they have huge aircraft carriers surrounded by a solid defense device.
And which one of them can control the radius of 800 km, which is the distance that the jets carriers of missiles travel back and forth without stopping as if they are fortified islands in the middle of the oceans.
Only then did the attention of the big countries shift somewhat from the importance of our geostrategic location, especially after the Arab nationalist movement emerged and grew in all parts of the Arab world, a movement whose principles by nature cannot compromise colonialism.
And if the geographical location strategy has diminished its importance, then the Arab world has acquired strategic importance of a new kind represented in its huge wealth of petroleum, the backbone of war and peace industry alike, in it about two-thirds of the world's stock of this highly important material and it occupies the second place in global production and feeds European industries with its production. Both Western and USA.
How is the geographical strategy different within Africa
The Arab countries in Africa differ in their status from the Asian countries, as the African coast approaches Europe at Tunisia so that it can divide the Mediterranean into two basins, east and west, and the latter is smaller than the first and simpler in appearance surrounded by mountain ranges that define it.
From Tunisia, the Atlas mountain ranges extend towards the west to the Strait of Gibraltar, forming a barrier separating the Sahara Desert in the south from the Mediterranean lands in the north, and there are such chains on the European coast.
The eastern basin differs from that, especially in Africa, where there is no mountain range, so the desert creeps until it reaches the seawater and in the region from the west of the Nile to Tunisia.
Semi-desert or purely desert conditions prevail, and in many directions we find that this area of the coast is surrounded by sand dunes, except in limited sides, as in Tobruk, where we find a natural bay that makes it an excellent port.
The Mediterranean, with its location and the conditions surrounding it, is a major route between Asia and Europe, but its importance in terms of between most of Africa and Europe is much less
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