Telegraph: The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented

Telegraph

The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented

Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East. With every passing year after the turn of the century, the instability of the Gulf region grew. By the beginning of 2006, nearly all the combustible ingredients for a conflict - far bigger in its scale and scope than the wars of 1991 or 2003 - were in place.