tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post5707985274272748763..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Small Wars and the most missing metricUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-10070598884601710262013-09-03T16:45:00.102+02:002013-09-03T16:45:00.102+02:00These "small wars" are quite large if yo...These "small wars" are quite large if you look at the bigger picture. A decade after the Cold War, from Tunisia to Afghanistan, the world gets restructured in a number of events under strong US influence. It's an expensive endeaver and none knows if it's worth the trouble. The attack on Syria is not yet finished nor has the war on Iran yet started. Both are sure to come one way or another. All these lands share vast natural resources and important geostrategic positions for the transport of these resources, plus a population altogether of 240 millions and growing. It's world power politics. It's not conquest and colonialism, it's more akin to the creation of client states. Whether or not this investment is worthwhile will show future events. Are resources and influence secured this way? Can a position be created that makes war for a future competitor with the USA futile? It's like Cecil Rhodes wet dream of a Pax Britannica with the United States that makes future wars futile. This time it's not about a north-south axis through Africa, but an east-west axis from India to Europe (Napoleon was already on that some centuries ago).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com