Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.