This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2021, Issue 2, in December 2021.
By Lieutenant Sarah Kaese, RAN
‘The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society’ – Franklin D Roosevelt
There is no denying that the Indo-Pacific is a region of intense modern political and economic interest. Through observance of historical patterns, especially noted through Ian Morris’s book Why the West rules – for now, the growth towards the East and evolving Indo-Pacific regional focus is the seeming natural and inevitable progression.[1]
