Geostrategic analysis
Introduction
Geostrategy is a subfield of geopolitics that tries to study and relate military strategic problems with geographical factors - resources of a country with its geopolitical objectives. Geostrategists, unlike geopoliticians, advocate proactive strategies, and approach geopolitics from a nationalist point of view. Some geostrategists are also geographers, specializing in subfields of human geography, such as political geography, economic geography, and cultural geography.[1].
Definition
Academics, theorists, and geopolitical professionals do not agree on a common definition for geostrategy. Most definitions, however, couple strategic considerations with geopolitical factors. While geopolitics is ostensibly neutral, examining the geographic and political characteristics of various regions, especially the impact of geography on politics, geostrategy involves comprehensive planning, allocating the means to achieve national goals or secure assets of military or political importance.
Originally the concept has been linked almost exclusively to the military field. Today, on the contrary, the term geostrategic has become generalized, meaning any rational organization of actions based on an end to be achieved, through the most economical and least risky use of the specific means available. The term, in a globalized world, is not only still used to name the great concepts in the military field, but is also considered in the political or economic field, or within a broader and more comprehensive concept that organically includes all these levels, with a global or regional vision of the planet.
The War Academy of the Chilean Army has defined geostrategy as the area of knowledge that studies the influence of geographical factors on decisions related to the national defense of States.[2].
Places of geopolitical value
The following list lists places on the planet that, due to their geographical characteristics, have strategic value:
Ortega Prado R., Geostrategy. Capacity development. CESIM, 2025. ISBN 978-956-7527-96-0.
Some organizations dedicated to the study of geostrategy:.
References
- [1] ↑ Ortega Prado. Geoestrategia. Academia de Guerra. ISBN 978-956-351-869-6. |autor= y |apellidos= redundantes (ayuda).
- [2] ↑ Ortega Prado Rodolfo, Geoestrategia, Santiago: Academia de Guerra del Ejército de Chile, 2013.