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Assignment:

"Geostrategy links geography with strategies of war, placing the planning and management of war in context of geographical, physical, and artificial (man-made) characteristics of the operational region. Geostrategy also demands a precise inspection of the geographical characteristics of an area from the point where military forces deploy until the desired destination. According to Geoffrey Sloan and Colin Gray, "geography is the mother of strategy" (Tal Tovy 2015: xv).

The purpose of the assignment is to help students understand how physical location influences geostrategy within the mutual interrelationship between physical geography and political system.

The assignment provides students an opportunity to distinguish between human and state behavior in context of structures of human societies, cultures and state institutions.

Select two countries of interest that you have not used before in this course and examine how their geography and physical location influence geostrategy. To identify elements of geostrategy, you need to look at evidence in the media, public speeches, etc. describing where a state concentrates its efforts by projecting military powers and directing diplomatic activity. Emphasis in your essay should have geographical factors such as location, resources, and accessibility, national rivalries if they exist, the need for state expansion, state behavior, and economic development.

• Maps, tables, and other visuals representations are allowed and encouraged. Five (5) scholarly sources need to be included and linked to each country.
• Is the target subject to media attention/coverage? Is the coverage incorporated in local media, national media or international media?
• All sources must be cited in-text correctly and according to The Chicago Manual Style of Citations. A full bibliographic list must be introduced at the end of the report in alphabetical order.