Talk:Geostrategy

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Geostrategy is a subfield of geopolitics.  As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching means to ends—in this case, a country's resources (whether they are limited or extensive) with its geopolitical objectives (which can be local, regional, or global). According to Gray and Sloan, geography is "the mother of strategy."
Geostrategists, as distinct from geopoliticians, advocate proactive strategies, and approach geopolitics from a nationalist point-of-view.  As with all political theories, geostrategies are relevant principally to the context in which they were devised: the nationality of the strategist, the strength of his or her country's resources, the scope of their country's goals, the political geography of the time period, and the technological factors that affect military, political, economic, and cultural engagement.
Many geostrategists are also geographers, specializing in subfields of geography, such as "human geography", "political geography", "economic geography", "cultural geography", "military geography", and "strategic geography".  Geostrategy is most closely related to strategic geography.
Critics of geostrategy have asserted that it is a pseudoscientific gloss used by  dominant nations to justify imperialist or hegemonic aspirations, or that it has been rendered irrelevant because of technological advances, or that its essentialist focus on geography leads geostrategists to incorrect conclusions about the conduct of foreign policy.	
In geopolitics, geostrategy refers to foreign policy motivated by a desire for the control of foreign geographic resources. 
In the language of geostrategists, geostrategy is like all strategies in that it is concerned with "matching means to ends."
"Oil geostrategy" and "global energy policy", for example, are largely synonymous with "petroleum politics."
Geostrategists advocate proactive strategies, and approach geopolitics from a nationalist point-of-view. 
As with all political theory, geostrategy are relevant principally to the context in which they were devised —the nationality of the strategist, the strength of their native country's resources, the scope of their country's goals, the political geography of the time period, and the technological factors that affect military, political, economic, and cultural engagement.
Hence geostrategists are typically associated with globalization and work for nations or agencies which seek to increase control and thereby profit from transactions of material resources in supplying (ie. "matching") large scale economic "demands".
Because relative national strength and dominance (economic and military) are intrinsic to any operable concepts of "strategy," anti-globalisation critics of geostrategy assert that "geostrategy" is a pseudoscientific gloss for used by dominant nations to justify imperialist or hegemonic aspirations. Another criticism is that geostrategy's essentialist focus on geography leads geostrategists to incorrect conclusions about the conduct of foreign policy.
Many geostrategists are also geographers, specializing in subfields of geography, such as "human geography", "political geography", "economic geography", "cultural geography", "military geography", and "strategic geography".
Steve, I have been quite clear about my objections to your text.  In fact, my objections to your text have been basically the same over the past four months:
*You present your personal criticisms as if they were fact; and,
*You refuse to do any research whatsoever to contribute to this article, and have not brought a *single* reference to cite.
Every time you submit an edit to any Wikipedia article, it states in bold text that encyclopedic content must be verifiable.  That means being able to cite it in a reliable source.  As a fellow administrator you ought to be well familiar with this standard.  I'm surprised you've gone on so long.  If you would like to take this conflict to Arbitration, by all means do so, because I have little doubt that they will side with official Wikipedia policy.  As long as you make openly-POV edits without any sources I will revert those changes.—Perceval 00:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Coolcoolcoolest, I'm excited about your enthusiasm for geostrategy.  However, I'm concerned that Thakur Sher Singh Parmar is not notable enough for such a large inclusion into the article text.  A google search for Mr. Parmar yields only 5 non-Wikipedia websites mentioning him: .  Moreover, a Google Scholar search yields no results at all for him: .   All the other major geostrategists have 100+ links in Google Scholar.  I think Mr. Parmar's theory ought to remain on his own article page, or on the Indian geostrategy page (which I'm quite enthusiastic about), until it has withstood the test of time.—Perceval 07:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: -Ste|vertigo 00:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: In "Mahan's book The Problem of Asia"... "he laid out the first geostrategy of the modern era."Strategy = defining the problem? - Ste|vertigo 00:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Solving the "problem" of Asia was the goal, the strategy was his proposed alliances and policies (predicated on a geographic analysis of where the various great powers were and what they controlled and where they were likely to expand).—Perceval 20:24, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  "predicated on a geographic analysis of where the various great powers were and what they controlled and where they were likely to expand" - this belongs in the article lede. -Ste|vertigo 06:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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