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DigitalDevilDogs.com

September 19, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

DigitalDevilDogs.com is a digital services company focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with website design, AI automation, marketing, and more. It’s built with a Marine Corps mindset for efficiency and grit, targeting local businesses like contractors, fitness professionals, and home services. Key Features: Benefits: Comparison to Similar Website…
Context on Gavin Newsom’s Statement

November 13, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

The statement from California Governor Gavin Newsom refers to a lawsuit filed on October 28, 2025, by California and over 20 other states (including Michigan) against the Trump administration. The suit challenged the administration’s refusal to use $6 billion in congressionally appropriated contingency funds to continue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…
Trump vs. Biden Through a Mackinder Lens for U.S. Leadership in 2032

November 11, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Dive deep into a fascinating geopolitical framing—applying Halford Mackinder’s 1904 Heartland theory to assess how Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s (or their successors’) visions might position the U.S. to lead in a projected 2032 world of multipolarity. Mackinder’s core idea remains prescient: Control of Eurasia’s “Heartland” (broadly, the resource-rich pivot…
The Human Heartland: Mackinder’s DEI Doctrine for American Primacy

November 11, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Halford Mackinder, the pioneering British geographer and father of modern geopolitics, is best known for his 1904 essay “The Geographical Pivot of History,” where he articulated the Heartland Theory. In it, he argued that control of the vast, resource-rich Eurasian “Heartland” (roughly Eastern Europe and Central Asia) would enable dominance…
Five Ideologies Prevalent in America

November 10, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Here are five ideologies prevalent in American discourse that, in practice, often generate more unintended consequences, division, or inefficiencies than effective resolutions: Defund the Police. While rooted in addressing systemic issues in policing, blanket calls to defund or abolish police departments have led to reduced law enforcement capacity in some…
Alan J. Mackinder: Revolutionizing Politics Through Geopolitical Insight and Principled Leadership

November 4, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

In the heart of Cincinnati, Ohio, Alan J. Mackinder stands as a beacon of strategic innovation, blending historical wisdom with modern data-driven approaches to reshape not just businesses, but the very fabric of political leadership. As CEO and Senior Strategist of Mackinder Strategies, LLC, Mackinder is pioneering a new era…
Genetics vs Educational Obtainment

October 25, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Getting to know and understand the educational development of Halford J. Mackinder, while comparing my personal era of geographical education and family development, provides opportunities for further discussion. Not much has changed in my family upbringing; however, the world around us has changed. The center point of my educational observations…
Why Work is Heathly

October 24, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Growing up as a kid, while I listened to my parents discuss my dad’s doctor visit from my bedroom, sorting baseball and football cards, I overheard my mom say, “The doctor said if you had gone back to work, you would be much healthier.” That was the day I decided…
Catalogue of the Officers, Instructors and Students of the Jackson Union School, for the Year Ending January, 1857.

October 18, 2025

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Alan J. Mackinder

Published in Detroit by the Free Press Book and Job Printing House in 1857, and originates from Jackson, Michigan. The document is part of the collections at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, where it has been digitized (likely by Google, based on the markings in the…