"In Iraq, I learned how extremist groups exploit access to water to expand control over territory," Eliasson recalls.
A day after Obama declared that Iraqi and Kurdish forces backed by US warplanes had broken Isis' hold on the critical Mosul Dam, US Central Command announced two strikes near it on Monday, to "further expand control of the area".
Energy is what causes the universe to expand, and the way that it dilutes as it expands controls how fast it expands and the detailed way in which it expands.
Last year, state legislators granted Mr. Bloomberg widely expanded control of the city school system.
The expanded control system, with its variety of devices, would have to be designed to process that.
(On June 26th, as Islamist forces expanded control, President Obama requested half a billion dollars to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels).
Over the past decade, state companies have maintained and expanded control over industries like automobiles, aviation, chemicals, energy, information technology, machinery, metals, steel and telecommunications.
Naturally, others can do the same to you but this, and the option to buy Council membership in rival cities offers interesting new ways of expanding control without resorting to naval combat.
Only Israeli military operations against Hamas in the West Bank prevent them from expanding control beyond Gaza, lamented Dagan, without which Fatah would fall within one month and Abbas would join his "mysteriously wealthy" son in Qatar.
