The New York Post military affairs columnist Ralph Peters writes about ongoing attempts to resuscitate three empires of old: the Persian, the Caliphate, and the Russian. Today's Shia Iranians are the Persians of old, the one time masters of Central Asia.
The ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State represents an attempt to put the Sunni "band" back together, in parts of Syria and Iraq for starters, with glances cast toward Libya and Jordan. Putin's Russia harks back to the Tsars and the Soviet Union spanning two continents.
These embryonic empires will be troublesome for the U.S. See what Peters writes about all three. Hat tip to Power Line blog for the link.
