Given the distribution of war potential on planet earth, the preservation of US primacy requires the prevention of a regional hegemon in Western Europe and East Asia. No other region on earth, certainly no other continent except Eurasia has enough war potential to produce a peer-competitor of the United States.1 US primacy does not require the absence of other great powers. It will endure even after unipolarity gives way to multi-polarity. However, without bringing the resources of either of these two regions under the control of one power – and especially without the elimination of neighboring rivals – no state in the international arena can hope to become stronger than the United States.2
The Third World War
The Third World War
The Third World War
Given the distribution of war potential on planet earth, the preservation of US primacy requires the prevention of a regional hegemon in Western Europe and East Asia. No other region on earth, certainly no other continent except Eurasia has enough war potential to produce a peer-competitor of the United States.1 US primacy does not require the absence of other great powers. It will endure even after unipolarity gives way to multi-polarity. However, without bringing the resources of either of these two regions under the control of one power – and especially without the elimination of neighboring rivals – no state in the international arena can hope to become stronger than the United States.2