Star-marked articles are restricted to subscribers only. See subscription information . A space platform consisting of a drone for launching weapons systems, a hypersonic attack aircraft, cruise missiles and vehicles for launching or repairing satellites or acting against enemy bases in space. This is all part of the United States' arms programme. The old world order based on a confrontation between two nuclear superpowers is no more.
Disorder reigns everywhere.
War seems to be reasserting itself. Then there is the geopolitical uncertainty. In Latin America as in Asia, areas once the haunt of guerrillas have become havens for all kinds of trafficking. Private armies are proliferating, often as well organised and equipped as the official ones. The instantaneous nature of international flows of capital, as of information, poses delicate security problems.