The plan is no longer for a modern state with clean courts, a functioning bureaucracy and a commitment to human rights that would lead to the locking up of the warlords, as many observers still seem to hope.
"Their footprints lead to Waziristan," he said referring to Baitullah Mehsud, a jihadist warlord who maintains a fief in that north-western region on the border with Afghanistan.Mr Mehsud leads a loose coalition of warlords and militias known as the Tehreek i Taliban Pakistan, or the Pakistan Taliban.
That result would lead to a reshuffled Karzai cabinet, possibly with increased influence for warlords and the Taliban.
The only art I ever noticed in the deserted corridors that lead to his office was a giant, scrolled lime-green portrait of the thirteenth-century warlord.
Then Khalifa Hifter, a 75-year-old warlord who aspires to become Libya's next dictator, launched an offensive against the capital, Tripoli, that ruptured the peace process and may lead to another devastating Arab civil war.
Accompanying Watanabe, who shot to stardom playing a feudal warlord opposite Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, was another hard man of Hollywood whose time on Iwo Jima would lead to something of a professional epiphany.
1911-12 - Militarevoltsleadlead to the proclamation of Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen and the abdication of the last Manchu emperor, but much of the country is taken over by unruly warlords.
That power vacuum has led to competition among Republicans to find a leading figure for the party, a fight that one Republican strategist compared to warlords battling it out for supremacy.
They give support to warlords who may be locally unpopular.
A statement released on behalf of two of the tourists, 74-year-old Hoosain Jacobs, a well-known anti-apartheid activist, and his 68-year-old wife Tahira, said a video on the 13th century warlord led to the arrest.
As we are already seeing, this has led to the rise of nationalist warlords and Islamist organizations, like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, seeking to fill the vacuum left behind.
