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A dystopian view of the future, in which it is envisaged that burgeoning populations and land poverty, especially in China and South America, will reduce countries to a state of chaos and random violence. Already in China there is a floating population of 120 million people, migrants from rural poverty. In Rio de Janerio armed guards protect prosperous areas from incursions of crime from the shanty towns. Prof. Martin van Creveld, author of "Future War" believes that future wars will be like Rio's - arising from disorder within the country. West Africa's chaos is seen at its worst in Sierra Leone where the state failed to provide basic amenities and became irrelevant to its people. Is Sierra Leone an omen of the future? Across the post-Cold War world states are collapsing. Drug dealing and related crime threaten to conbtrol entire cities. We live in revolutionary times with no prospect of a settled future.