Miscellaneous Geopolitics

Here are some recent articles I thought were interesting.

• Geopolitics of the US - a nice diagram showing some of the natural resource advantages the US has.  Stratfor tends to under-emphasize the effect of worldview in their historical analyses, but they're still worth reading if you're interested in this sort of thing
• Clausewitz and World War IV - this Armed Forces Journal article is a nice summary of why there's been so much emphasis recently on social science in the defense domain. The assertion is that WWI was the Chemist's War (key knowledge was chemical engineering), WWII was the Physicist's War (radar, atomic bomb), WWIII (Cold War) was the Information Researcher's War (intelligence knowledge was key), and WWIV will be the Social Scientist's War.  Reminds me of the old cliche about scientists getting to the top of the mountain and finding the theologians there ... only the Gospel will remove the threat of Islam.  I just don't think a stable synthesis of modernism & Islam is possible; I hope I'm wrong.