The value of an off the beaten track island, derives from its strategic location.
It may of course be located at the edge, but also on a passage. The one is associated with boundaries and the other with the passage.
Though if the island is also barren, then this value makes the difference.
The location also matters, when it’s in relation to areas considered important in themselves, such as the Peloponnese and Crete, because then, the control of the passage becomes even more interesting.
Because in this case it is not only a passage, but also strategic tolls.
In this case we are dealing with a critical island, which functions not as an edge, but as a link.
And the topostrategy of Greece is based on those extreme cases, in order to be resistant to attacks.
If now we examine it chronostrategically, we would be able to understand why the Ottoman Empire did not succeed in undertaking Antikythera which was kept by the Venetians until the coming of Napoleon.
And it is not coincidental that it had the same fate at the Ionian Islands with regard to the English.
All these facts are explained, not only via the passage, but also through the criticality, in relation to the Greek network of resistance, which was based on its durability, in order to support through its freedom the occupied positions.
So the value of an off the beaten track island, it’s not only the boundaries, but also the crucial passage.
This should be incorporated into the Greece of the future, in order for the present not to attempt to erase the substance, so that it goes through solely to the economy.