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Module - III Geo-Strategy

Security and Geo-Strategy
and development. The good examples of this being India's role of in SAARC
and ASEAN.
In the next lesson you will learn how geo-strategy helps in political decision making.

Terminal Exercises

Note 1. How does studying geography help in understanding strategy? Explain.

2. Describe the various natural resources of India.

3. Explain how does industrial production help in defence of a country.

Answers to Intext Questions

7.1

1. Geo-strategy deals with the strategy to use the physical features and natural
resources of earth in a calculated plan of action in order to achieve national
goals of the state.

2. Human Geography and Economic Geography
3. Mountains, Plains, Plateau regions and Islands of the South

4. 7516 km
5. Firstly, these provide manpower requirement of all three services of Indian Military
- Army, Navy and Air force Secondly, these are a good source of economic
activity

7.2

1. Coal, Petroleum, Hydro-electricity and Atomic Power

2. The Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra

3. Iron ore, Chromium, Bauxite, Coal, Uranium, Thorium, Mica, Gypsum

7.3

1. Economic power is the capacity of a country to use its economic resources and
assets in order to achieve self-sufficiency
2. Food Crops - Rice, Jowar, Pulses and Maize; Cash Crops - Cotton, Tea,
Coffee, Sugar Cane, Tobacco
3. Agriculture, Industrial Resources and Services

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