Synopsis This is an insightful analysis of inter- and intra-state conflicts and tensions in the countries of Asia even as the centre of gravity of economic, political and technological power is shifting from the Trans-Atlantic zone to Asia, particularly to East, South and Southeast Asia. The investigation ranges widely over conventional and asymmetric wars, terrorism as an instrument of policy in inter-and intra-state conflicts, suicidal Jihadism as a form of war by religious extermists to realise their manifest destiny, security problems arising out of falling states and problems inherent in the simultaneous rise of the two most populous, nuclear armed, developing, and neighbouring countries in Asia....