The digital age produces binary outcomes. Winners are likely to win overwhelmingly-in struggle in addition to in enterprise. The Soviet Union crumbled within the late Eighties when American expertise bested Soviet navy spending, then estimated at 1 / 4 of GDP. The big Russian wager on navy energy misplaced and Communism fell. America emerged from the Chilly Warfare with a level of navy superiority larger than any nation in trendy historical past. It additionally emerged with a technologically pushed financial system that had no actual competitor, with Russia near break after the collapse of Communism and China in an early stage…