Lecture 9 - Opioids

Question 1

stone age warfare

Answer 1

bows, arrows, dubs, spears
avoided it unless there was an obvious advantage to be gained
involved stealth to avoid major confrontation
was mainly to get slaves and scale of killing was small

Question 2

3 aspects of warfare

Answer 2

fear
stealth
display

Question 3

3 factors of war Carl Van Clausewitz (1832)

Answer 3

• fascinating trinity
• blind impulse thats located within people (hate and enmity)
• free will of the army and its leader (chance and probability)
• pure reason, pertains to government

Question 4

4 vegetation zones for war

Answer 4

mixed forest
broadleaf forest
Mediterranean scrub
dry tropical forest

Question 5

most battles in one place

Answer 5

9
Edirne Turkey
Adrianople - roman city at one point

Question 6

oldest town in archaeology

Answer 6

Jericho
7000 BCE
had walls and defenses

Question 7

examples of defenses

Answer 7

Great wall of china
Russian Cherta lines
Rome Hadrians wall
Limes in germany 
Fossatum Africae (N Africa)

Question 8

differences walls would mark

Answer 8

barbarian/civilized
non-fertile/fertile
plowed/non-plowed
food deficient/food rich

Question 9

does war change farming

Answer 9

yes farmers are told what to plant during wars

ex. ww1 and ww2

Question 10

how do farmers who are rebelling get money for weapons

Answer 10

they turn valuable cash crops into money then into arms

weed or opium typically produce wealth

Question 11

Khun Sa

Answer 11

shan for prosperous prince
1934-2007
History’s greatest and wealthiest drug lord
Born in northern Burma

Question 12

golden triangle

Answer 12

burma thailand and laos

areas associated with opium production and trade

Question 13

Chinese communist revolution

Answer 13

communists defeated kuamintange (KMT) in 1949

they fled china to northern burma and get seriously into opium

Question 14

khun sa share of market over time

Answer 14

1969 - 10%
1984 - 75%
1987 - 80%

Question 15

Khun Sa mistake

Answer 15

built cities and built army of 20,000
declared a new country a shan state
thailand and burma began to threaten and he resigned to become financier

Question 16

Afghanistan

Answer 16

currently produces 90% of the worlds opium
golden triangle only produces 5% used to be 50
started after 9/11, longest US war in history

Question 17

where does taliban’s money/arms come from

Answer 17

taliban controls more of afghanistan since any time since start of war
US coalition forces bomb narcotics centers but makes no difference

Question 18

farmland size on which opium is grown

Answer 18

2000 - 75000 ha
2001 (start of war) - 5000 ha
2017 - 330,000 ha
2018 - 263,000 ha