・It is difficult to say that the next challenger to America is China. The reasons are 1) it is an isolated country and cannot expand its territory, 2) it is not a naval country, 3) it is essentially unstable, and inland citizens remain poor (p21)
・It is Japan, Turkey, and Poland where other powerful countries will rise in the middle of the century (p22)
・The concept developed before the war, where electricity generated in space is converted into microwaves and transmitted to the ground, will shift from prototyping to practical application during the upcoming world war (p23)
・The reason why a unified Europe was not realized is the English Channel. At first, Spain, then France, and finally Germany succeeded in controlling the continent, but they were unable to unify. (p43)
・The former Soviet republics (Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), where Muslims occupy the majority, suddenly became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed. (p63)
・Population growth is bound to come to an end due to a decline in the birth rate and a slowdown in life expectancy (p93)
・For Russia, the post-Cold War world came to an end in the true sense of the word when the Orange Revolution occurred in Ukraine from December to January 2004) p115)
・In addition to Indonesia and Pakistan, there are 3 major Islamic nation states: Egypt with a population of 80 million, Turkey with 71 million, and Egypt (p126) with 65 million people
・The strength of Mexico's population, which has increased about 4 times in the past 50 years, is stable over the next 50 years, and the labor force can be secured without being bothered by population decline (p132)
・When viewed geopolitically, China is effectively isolated from other regions, which are island countries (p141)
・The Chinese government is based on 1) a huge bureaucratic organization that runs the country, and 2) a military security organization (p152) that enforces the will of the Communist Party
・Russia changed its strategy around 2000, gave up on industrial development that it had been working on for a century, and became a resource exporter centered on energy resources (p163)
・If the reliability of the cycle that has continued since the 220th anniversary is high in America, now in the middle of the fifth term that began with the 1980 Reagan election, this pattern will continue until around 2030, and a decisive shift will be made in the 2032 election (p195)
・When the social security system set the retirement age at 65, the average life expectancy was 61. That increase in average age changed the income and expenditure calculation of the pension system (p201)
・By the 2040s, America had formed alliances with Japan, Turkey, and Poland, but significant differences of interest have arisen between Japan and the US, and America has joined hands with the Korean (unified Korea) and Chinese governments (p220)
・America abandons conventional strategies that cost money and is instead constructing a hypersonic drone system (p253)
・Fighting wars in the 20th century required thousands of bombers and millions of rifles; in the 21st century, it became possible to fight in a fraction of this, heralding the end of all-out warfare (p268)
・Sea control in the 21st century will depend on a space system that can identify and target enemy ships rather than an ocean-going fleet (p275)
・Electricity for war in the 21st century is equivalent to oil for war in the 20th century (p303)
・Full-scale use of the new system will begin during the war in the 2050s, and space power generation will become part of everyday life through space power generation plans in the 2060s (p327)
・Population movements from poor countries to rich people occur, but the opposite is not true. The political border with Mexico has not changed, but the cultural boundary has moved northward (p336)
・Tests for practical application of robot technology will be carried out by around 2030, when a social and political crisis occurs, and preparations for commercialization will be ready; robots in 2030 are probably computers from around 1975 (p338)
