I finished reading all of "Marginal Operation (Revision)" by Yuri Shibamura today.

I've been walking with my headlights on while reading at night, and I think it's good to have a book that makes me concentrate so much, with saying "Oh, I'm home already".

The book is set in China, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand.

I've been studying the geopolitics of this area.

Illustrations (pictures) are nice, but it would be nice if they could add a map.

A schematic of the battlefield would be even better.

The researcher (me) of a patent specification mass production machine with drawing supremacy thinks so.

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After reading the books, I really felt sorry for the country of China.

I'm looking at Google MAP right now, and I'm still amazed at the vastness of China.

I was almost dizzy from the length of the border line, which is a long stretch of land, much of which is disputed territory.

From a geopolitical point of view, which is basically based on the principle of "hostile relations with neighboring countries," I think it must be very difficult to govern such a vast territory.

If they were to adopt the so-called Western values of democracy (human rights), they would not be able to survive as a country, I think.

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About 80 years ago, our country tried to do the same thing with oceans and continents, and failed spectacularly.

(Google "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" or "Absolute National Defense Sphere.")

By the way, Germany also expanded in Europe (this is a "continent") around the same time, and also failed.

"I think that "big/expansive" is basically "troublesome".

By the way, one of my juniors once told me that if the total distance required for logistics exceeds a certain value, the country comes to lose the war.

Maintaining wide and long fronts and borders is a huge cost.

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In comparison, the Ebata family maintains their territory with two surveillance cameras, sensors, and a Raspberry Pi.

And it's all self-supporting, with only one operator.

Being small is basically being cheap and easy.

"Hooray for petit bourgeois"