Napoleon Bonaparte once said of China:
“Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”
And so two hundred and fifty-plus years on China—and its impact on the Asia-Pacific region in general—is fulfilling Bonaparte’s prediction. The epicentre of the world is shifting from the Western-European and American ‘model’ to a world that will be dominated by what happens in, at the very least
, a heavily-influenced if not, Sino-driven Asia-Pacific. Australia will be at the forefront of the oncoming and prevailing conditions that will shape the future. GO is able to offer an independent analysis combining informative and succinct observations in this unique, and what will become, an incredibly an incrementally and then exponentially challenging geo-political and geo-strategic environment. GO understands, and is secure in the knowledge that the new challenges that will be faced stem from the way things ‘were,’ and that the way in which things will now have to ‘be’ in an evidence-based comprehensive way. A
Australians' must redefine their nation and this will be done by either responding to this new age and be proactive, or be 'dragged along for the ride' by others--the United States of America in particular. The time has come for Australia to decide on a business, strategic and political level to reconfigure what ‘has been’ and to be assured in the knowledge that astute and succinct observations are what is now needed. Much will be turned on its head! After many years of interest in International Relations my doctoral thesis examined the progress of war as a mechanism of intent and as a deliberate outcome of specific actions; and moreover, how within this framework it is able to be utilized to a position of advantage. With the coming of what is colloquially known as the ‘Asian Century’ and the subsequent changes it will generate, the time is nigh for unfettered independent assessment/s of the drastic changes that will come about due to this happening. Geo-Strategic Orbit is essentially about developing the geo-political and geo-strategic awareness of what is happening in the Asia-Pacific region; and what is happening in other regions that directly influence this region. Independent, thorough, evidence-based analysis is what GO offers.
