Deconstructing our Dark Age Future

*Milspeak .pdf ahoy:

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/PARAMETERS/09summer/phillips.pdf

"The Westphalian state system will crumble, and the world will slip into a New Dark Age presaged by fragmented political authority, overlapping jurisdictions, fluid territorial boundaries, group marginalization, divided loyalties, no-go areas, and contested property rights."

(((Or maybe not. Because, as this article ingeniously argues, the Westphalian system never existed in the first place. It was mostly Ame