IN 1962 the third leg of the nuclear weapons strategy necessary to put in place the MAD doctrine (Mutually Assured Destruction) was completed in an attempt to ensure there would never be a military World War Three due to the dire consequences to both sides.

Since then the attainment of global dominance has been mainly economic rather than military, with the respective militaries supporting this economic mindset through continuous minor wars across the world.

The result is that the enemy is no longer the obvious one: instead, every major nation in the world could be seen as a pariah to each other.

It has become very clear over the past 50 years that the US has had a dominance strategy to control vital global industries (many decades before Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ statement was made).

This economic strategy is more out in the open these days as senior politicians and global corporations from the major industrial

nations determine and implement the sale of even vital national industrial corporations against long-term national security interests.

This can be seen with the sale of the French industrial giant Alstrom to General Electric (GE): France will rue the day its politicians allowed the sale.

The international doctrine of dog-eat-dog economic policies will become clearer to the world over the next two decades as critical global resources run out and will inevitably fuel an economic global war for world supremacy.

David Hill,

World Innovation Foundation,

The Media Centre, Huddersfield

Good luck on trains if Labour win election

Evidence shows the rail industry in Britain to be in total chaos.

It consists of many components, one of which, Network Rail (already under public ownership) is, according to an independent report, one of the most incompetent.

What is Labour’s solution to solving these overall problems?

Nationalise the whole lot.

Good luck to passengers were that to happen.

Peter Rickaby,

West Park, Selby