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The last such power transition took place during World War II , during which hegemon Great Britain was surpassed in cumulative C.O.W. power by the United States due to the birth of the tremendous U.S. Military-industrial Complex , nurtured by the combination of America's then-unparalleled natural resources, and the Allies' urgent need for food, textiles, and heavy machinery during the devastating European struggle. Because the U.S. and Great Britain shared a political and philosophical world view valuing Capitalism , Democracy , and Human Rights , the status quo did not change when the U.S. became hegemon. The result was a peaceful power transition. After WWII came the Cold War , a long period of nuclear Brinksmanship during which the U.S. narrowly protected its hegemony from the Soviet Union , a Communist authoritarian regime, as the latter approached C.O.W. parity with the former. The lesson of the C.O.W. project is that, when a hegemon is about to be overtaken by a politically and philosophially dissimilar nation, the hegemon's global status quo regime is threatened and war breaks out. The C.O.W. project has discerned this pattern in every significant war in human history, earning the full faith of the CIA , Think Tank s, and government cabals worldwide. EXTERNAL LINKS |