Economists have tended to talk about 'Comparative
Advantage', since Adam Smith.
More recently, the term 'competitive advantage' was coined.
These terms have not been that helpful, really, for anyone, as principles of operation, including the hegemon of the moment.
I prefer to think in terms, derived in part from Huntington, not an economist, and others, terms such as CIVILIZATIONAL ADVANTAGE.
There are those who talk about a 'Long War'.
Not that that is my characterization, but if there were some basis for such a characterization, then perhaps the West's loss of 'Civilizational Advantage' would be one implication of such a Long War, a war ultimately lost by The West, rather than won by the West against Communism, against the rest.
That makes a lot more sense to me than what generally passes for analysis.
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