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If this article is to be believed, then we might see the Pentagon defining its War On Terror in purely economic terms:

Pentagon Moving Swiftly to Become 'GloboCop' (from the Inter Press Service News Agency):
' Barnett's term for areas of greatest threat is ''the Gap'', places where ''globalisation is thinning or just plain absent''. Such regions are typically ''plagued by politically repressive regimes, widespread poverty and disease, routine mass murder, and -- most important -- the chronic conflicts that incubate the next generation of terrorists''. '

In the context of the article, this quote is basically saying: if your economy doesn't play along and open its markets, we're going to be ready to invade you at a moment's notice.