For fifty years the world watched and held it's breath as two hegemons narrowly averted conflict time and time again while building up enough weapons that could destroy the world many times over.

... For fifty years the world watched and held it's breath as two hegemons narrowly averted conflict time and time again while building up enough weapons that could destroy the world many times over. As hard as it is to believe, the world was virtually stable, with two superpowers, with many allies on either side it was hard for a conflict to break out. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 all that was stable began to disintegrate and one power remained, while the other quickly regressed along with it's satellite states. This left the world with a security dilemma it had never witnessed before... With only one superpower, where will the next conflicts arise and what will we do about them? The consensus is that the next wars will be intrastate rather than interstate wars and that these wars will be on ethnic grounds

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