The rapid advancement of information communication technology has produced both great promise and great peril for the world. Yet this advancement has also changed the way in which we view the relative disparities that exist. For those of us in the top global income brackets of the world, it is difficult for us to understand the impact with which these disparities are felt. Whether good or bad, these felt disparities infect many of the emerging economies with which the western world conducts business. When the disparities bring about changes in fair governance, decent living conditions, and a future for children, the relative disparity felt is lessened and is often times not acted on. Unfortunately this is not the case on the most underdeveloped continent in the world: Africa. Yet Africa is the next large emerging market.
While it was possible for the ideals of democracy and limited monarchy to gain ground in Russia it is a fallacy to believe that western Democracy and all of the details of government that it would entail, could have taken hold in Russia.
There has never been a country without a significant naval force that has defeated a country with a naval force in modern history. The preeminence of Naval sea power in the early 20th century was the dreadnaught class battleship. So powerful and armored was this class of battleships that naval tacticians believed at the time that only a dreadnaught could sink another dreadnaught. Mitchell would forever change tacticians’ views on the importance of aircraft through publicity and the use of the Martin NBS-1 to bomb naval ships.