Editing Geostrategy (section)

===Modern definitions===
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{{blockquote|[G]eostrategy is about the exercise of power over particularly critical spaces on the Earth's surface; about crafting a political presence over the international system. It is aimed at enhancing one's security and prosperity; about making the international system more prosperous; about shaping rather than being shaped. A geostrategy is about securing access to certain trade routes, strategic bottlenecks, rivers, islands and seas. It requires an extensive military presence, normally coterminous with the opening of overseas military stations and the building of warships capable of deep oceanic power projection. It also requires a network of alliances with other great powers who share one's aims or with smaller "lynchpin states" that are located in the regions one deems important.|James Rogers and Luis Simón, "Think Again: European Geostrategy"<ref name="geostrategy">{{cite web |url= http://europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eu/2010/03/14/think-again-european-geostrategy/ |title= Think Again: European Geostrategy |first1= James |last1= Rogers |first2= Luis |last2= Simón |date= 14 March 2010 |access-date= 1 May 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100424042233/http://europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eu/2010/03/14/think-again-european-geostrategy/ |archive-date= 24 April 2010 }}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|[T]he words ''geopolitical, strategic,'' and ''geostrategic'' are used to convey the following meanings: ''geopolitical'' reflects the combination of geographic and political factors determining the condition of a state or region, and emphasizing the impact of geography on politics; ''strategic'' refers to the comprehensive and planned application of measures to achieve a central goal or to vital assets of military significance; and geostrategic merges strategic consideration with geopolitical ones.|[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], ''Game Plan'' (emphasis in original)<ref name="gameplan">{{cite book|last= Brzezinski|first= Zbigniew|author-link= Zbigniew Brzezinski|year= 1986|title= Game Plan: A Geostrategic Framework for the Conduct of the U.S.–Soviet Contest|publisher= The Atlantic Monthly Press|location= Boston|page= xiv|isbn= 978-0-87113-084-6}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|For the [[United States]], [[Eurasia]]n geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of [[Imperialism|imperial]] geostrategy are to prevent [[collusion]] and maintain [[collective defense|security dependence]] among the [[vassal]]s, to keep [[tributary|tributaries]] [[:wikt:pliant|pliant]] and protected, and to keep the [[barbarian]]s from coming together.| Zbigniew Brzezinski, ''The Grand Chessboard''<ref name="chessboard">{{cite book|last= Brzezinski|first= Zbigniew|author-link= Zbigniew Brzezinski|year= 1997|title= The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives|url= https://archive.org/details/grandchessboarda00brze_190|url-access= limited|publisher= Basic Books|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-465-02725-5|page= [https://archive.org/details/grandchessboarda00brze_190/page/n47 40]}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|''Geostrategy'' is the geographic direction of a state's foreign policy. More precisely, geostrategy describes where a state concentrates its efforts by projecting military power and directing diplomatic activity. The underlying assumption is that states have limited resources and are unable, even if they are willing, to conduct a ''tous asimuths'' foreign policy. Instead they must focus politically and militarily on specific areas of the world. Geostrategy describes this foreign-policy thrust of a state and does not deal with motivation or decision-making processes. The geostrategy of a state, therefore, is not necessarily motivated by geographic or geopolitical factors. A state may project power to a location because of ideological reasons, interest groups, or simply the whim of its leader.|[[Jakub J. Grygiel]], ''Great Powers and Geopolitical Change'' (emphasis in original)<ref name="gpagc">{{cite book|last= Grygiel|first= Jakub J.|year= 2006|title= Great Powers and Geopolitical Change|url= https://archive.org/details/greatpowersgeopo00gryg|url-access= limited|publisher= The Johns Hopkins University Press|location= Baltimore|isbn= 978-0-8018-8480-1|page= [https://archive.org/details/greatpowersgeopo00gryg/page/n41 23]}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|It is recognized that the term "geo-strategy" is more often used, in current writing, in a global context, denoting the consideration of global land-sea distribution, distances, and accessibility among other geographical factors in strategic planning and action... Here the definition of geo-strategy is used in a more limited regional frame wherein the ''sum of geographic factors interact to influence or to give advantage to one adversary, or intervene to modify strategic planning as well as political and military venture.''|Lim Joo-Jock, ''Geo-Strategy and the South China Sea Basin.'' (emphasis in original)<ref name="joo-jock">{{cite book|last= Joo-Jock|first= Lim|year= 1979|title= Geo-Strategy and the South China Sea Basin|publisher= Singapore University Press|location= Singapore|page= 4}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|A science named "geo-strategy" would be unimaginable in any other period of history but ours. It is the characteristic product of turbulent twentieth-century world politics.|Andrew Gyorgi, ''The Geopolitics of War: Total War and Geostrategy'' (1943).<ref name="gyorgy" />}}

{{blockquote|"Geostrategy,"—a word of uncertain meaning—has&nbsp;... been avoided.|[[Stephen Jones (administrator)|Stephen B. Jones]], "The Power Inventory and National Strategy"<ref name="jones">{{cite journal|last= Jones|first= Stephen B.|year= 1954|title= The Power Inventory and National Strategy|journal= World Politics|volume= VI|issue= 4|page= 422|doi= 10.2307/2009020|jstor= 2009020|s2cid= 155905539}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|Geostrategy is the geographic direction of a state's foreign policy. More precisely, geostrategy describes where a state concentrates its efforts by projecting military power and directing diplomatic activity. The underlying assumption is that states have limited resources and are unable, even if they are willing, to conduct an all-out foreign policy. Instead they must focus politically and militarily on specific areas of the world. Geostrategy describes the foreign-policy thrust of a state and does not deal with motivations or decision-making processes. The geostrategy of a state, therefore, is not necessarily motivated by geographic or geopolitical factors. A state may project power to a location because of ideological reasons, interest groups, or simply the whim of its leader.| Krishnendra Meena, "Munesh Chandra asked: What is the difference between geo-politics and geo-strategy?"<ref>{{Cite web | url= http://idsa.in/askanexpert/geopoliticsandgeostrategy |title = Munesh Chandra asked: What is the difference between geo-politics and geo-strategy? &#124; Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses}}
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