For those of you familiar with the theory of Sameul Huntington, what is your opinion of it? I will offer my own, but for now I'm off to bed.
He basically argued that the future war would be Culture A vs Culture B fought over cultural reasons (rather than economic or land).
While it does hold true for the War on Terror, I don't view this to be the future war. Cultures are becoming more homogenized across the world every day. In addition, it's not hard to visualize scenarios where his arguments don't apply. For example, he views Colombia and Venzuela as part of the same "South American" culture. If those two went to war over border disputes and narcoterrorist problems then it's not hard to imagine the United States helping Colombia.
Other problems include: Painting Indochina and China as part of the same civilization. Vietnam keeps a huge army for the sole purpose of deterring the Chinese. He paints the entire Muslim world as one civilization when it reality it's sharply divided among Indonesians, Kurds, Turks, Pakistanis, Arabs, etc.
Edit: Posted before looking at Beet's posts.
