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The article uses "great power" as a synonym for 'buys lots of weapons' or more charitably "has a strong army". By these definitions, North Korea is a "great pow
by plinkplonk 14y ago
The article uses "great power" as a synonym for 'buys lots of weapons' or more charitably "has a strong army". By these definitions, North Korea is a "great power".
India is decades away from being a 'great power'. Lots of internal problems to solve first (said as an Indian living in India)
- rikacomet 14y agoyes, I would agree with you a lot on what you said above. The war with china (if any) is not on the military level, but is and should be on the socio-economic development issues. we should ought to say, that we both have 1 billion+ people, lets see who can do things for them better, who can eradicate cancer/malaria/dengue/H1N1/etc, who can provide better education and opportunities, and much more. The fights of today and tomorrow should not be fought with guns and explosives, it should be with budgets and plan implementations.
- jostmey 14y agoI have never been to India but my girlfriend spent six months there. She would laugh at the title of this article. In her eyes, India has to radically change culturally before the country may blossom. For example, one cultural problem is that too many people just acquiesce in the face of difficulty.
- EliRivers 14y agoThe article uses "great power" as a synonym for 'buys lots of weapons' or more charitably "has a strong army". By these definitions, North Korea is a "great power". Not true. You've mistaken "huge army" for "strong army". The DPRK military is huge (in terms of manpower). It is, nonetheless, not remotely capable enough to qualify as "great power".