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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 27 2018, @01:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-rid-of-your-friends dept.

Researchers at Yale University have found that the more allies a country has, the less power it has. The authors say the findings have potential implications for current events.

The scientists published their results in the July issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), a joint publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

The scientists developed a simple, yet sophisticated, computer game to examine relationships between countries and the resulting strategic environments."We have developed a power allocation game to study countries' strategic interactions in a complex environment," said Yuke Li from Yale University. Dr. Li and Prof. A. Stephen Morse, the Dudley Professor of distributed control and adaptive control in electrical engineering at Yale University, used the game to ask if having more allies in a networked, strategic environment will always be beneficial to a country in terms of power allocation outcomes. "The answer is, surprisingly, no. This is especially so for a country without sufficient power to mediate between the conflicts among its potential allies."

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-allies-decrease-country-power.html

[Abstract]: The power allocation game on a network: a paradox

At the rate at which the current POTUS is alienating allies, the USA will become even more powerful, as per the above article.


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:51AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:51AM (#699115)

    > a 'cargo' by ship and a 'shipment' by truck

    Yeah, right. Next you'll be telling me that I should be parking my car on a driveway and driving it on a parkway. I'm not falling for your word games!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @04:59AM (#699140)

    Doesn't that 'whoosh' sound you hear so many times a day bother you?

    • (Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday June 27 2018, @05:48AM (1 child)

      by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday June 27 2018, @05:48AM (#699157)

      Probably no more than your whooshes bother you. Pretty clear that GP understood GGP's post perfectly.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 27 2018, @06:05AM (#699164)

        Probably no more than your whooshes bother you.

        Can't hear them. Tinnitus, see?