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ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Among strategists, geography is used in an effort to refine Australia’s strategic thinking and impose hierarchy and order on Defence spending and structure. Yet in the first decades of the 21st century the geographic calculus was bedevilled by fundamental shifts in power. As much else changed, so did Australia’s sense of the world around its continent, transformed by a shape-shifting, expanding sense of region. In the 1980s and 1990s, Australia helped build an ambitious geographic construct, the Asia–Pacific. Then that Asia–Pacific model gave way to an even larger defining geography, the Indo-Pacific. ....