ABSTRACT
The most significant change in geographical distribution is the increase in South/Central Asia, it reports, "which has gone from six conflicts in 1997 to ten in 2000. The rise of conflict in this region is primarily due to the spillover of the war in Afghanistan, which acts like a cancer on the region, spreading to the weakest states and destabilizing even the strongest." The National Defense Council Foundation's report has added some new terminology to the ongoing debate. It talks about the threat of "invisible weapons of mass destruction" - the secret development of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons by rogue states like Iraq and North Korea. Perhaps the most important part of the report lies in its conclusion: "While the number of conflicts has gone down, the potential intensity has gone up dramatically". Nation-states seemed to be solid, and anarchy seemed to be something from the government-hating, or even the anarchist/assassins of twentieth-century America.
