If this sort of thing interests you, I recommend reading The War Nerd over on Exiled (http://exiledonline.com/cat/war-nerd/).
One of his more recent columns talked about how Morocco conquered the French Sahara without even firing a shot - they just marched 100,000s of people into it and said "Well, we live here now, and it's part of Morocco." The French government didn't want to be seen shooting unarmed civilians on live TV, so they lost that colony. ( He also correctly predicted that the Iraq war would be a fiasco the way it was being planned. )
As for future wars... the one I wonder about is the looming possibility of China and India. Both are resource hungry, have huge populations, and are right on top of each other.
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One of his more recent columns talked about how Morocco conquered the French Sahara without even firing a shot - they just marched 100,000s of people into it and said "Well, we live here now, and it's part of Morocco." The French government didn't want to be seen shooting unarmed civilians on live TV, so they lost that colony. ( He also correctly predicted that the Iraq war would be a fiasco the way it was being planned. )
As for future wars... the one I wonder about is the looming possibility of China and India. Both are resource hungry, have huge populations, and are right on top of each other.