Global Stability - Economic As Well As

In Early Times, It Was Easier To Control A Million People Than To Kill A Million. Today, It Is Infinitely Easier To To Kill A Million People Than To Control A Million.

What Is Most Important To The History Of The World? The Taliban Or The Collapse Of The Soviet Empire? Some Stirred-up Moslems Or The Liberation Of Central Europe And The End Of The Cold War?

Technology Will Make Available To The Leaders Of Major Nations, Techniques For Conducting Secret Warfare, Of Which Only A Bare Minimum Of The Security Forces Need Be Appraised.....techniques Of Weather Modification Could Be Employed To Produce Prolonged Periods Of Drought Or Storm.

Today We Are Again Witnessing The Emergence Of Transnational Elites ... [whose] Ties Cut Across National Boundaries ...it Is Likely That Before Long The Social Elites Of Most Of The More Advanced Countries Will Be Highly Internationalist Or Globalist In Spirit And Outlook ... The Nation-state Is Gradually Yielding Its Sovereignty... Further Progress Will Require Greater American Sacrifices. More Intensive Efforts To Shape A New World Monetary Structure Will Have To Be Undertaken, With Some Consequent Risk To The Present Relatively Favorable American Position.

For America, The Chief Geopolitical Prize Is Eurasia... Now A Non-eurasian Power Is Preeminent In Eurasia - And America's Global Primacy Is Directly Dependent On How Long And How Effectively Its Preponderance On The Eurasian Continent Is Sustained.