Save Europe from obscurity
In past centuries it has been possible for small nations to achieve positions in the world quite out of proportion to their size. They were able to do this by their superior technical level in the arts of peace and war.
Anyone can think of examples. Rome, thanks to its genius for organising, supplying and using its armed forces, came to dominate the ancient world. Britain, having eliminated French competition, took over India in the 18th and 19th centuries. Indeed, the most surprising thing about the British Empire at its zenith in, say, 1900, was that…
