ABSTRACT
Two issues currently play dominant roles in shaping the current international landscape. Processes commonly referred to by the label ‘globalisation’ are affecting every area of the world through environmental modification, electronic communications, financial shifts, and the evolution of a worldwide civil society. Juxtaposed against this multidimensional globalisation is US military primacy. In 2004, the United States spent $466 billion on defence; the next largest spenders were China and Russia, at $65 billion and $50 billion respectively.1
