The Spratlys. Narva. Fezzan.
These places risk becoming household names in 2015. Can’t locate them on a map? Well, a lot of people couldn’t have found Donetsk in Ukraine or Raqqa in Syria as 2014 got under way.
As experts debate potential nasty surprises in 2015, certain scenarios keep coming up: a naval incident between China and one of its neighbors over a series of sparsely inhabited islands. A renewed push by Islamic rebels in Libya’s lawless south into West Africa. An implosion in North Korea.
Other possibilities include a Russian push into the Baltic countries, a third Palestinian intifada, an Israeli strike …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe
