The first realm, “national resources,” seeks to capture the “building blocks” a country needs if it is to develop modes of production that enable it to dominate the cycles of innovation in the global economy and increase its hegemonic potential through the creation of highly sophisticated military forces that can execute the most demanding military operations against a diverse variety of adversaries. Since the beginning of the current international system, these “building blocks” have usually been measured by variables such as population, size of territory, economic strength (usually measured in terms of GNP/GDP), and natural resources.1 Not surprisingly, these are the indicators commonly identified by the traditional approaches to measuring power, and they cannot be—and have not been—simply jettisoned. They remain important and, more critically, indicate the thresholds through which countries must pass if they are to become