After the Manchu Qing dynasty fell, in 1911, Chinese warlords battled for supremacy in Xinjiang.
In Yemen the political crisis continued as government forces allied with warlords battled militants seeking to oust authoritarian Pres.
The U.S. and U.N. forces soon pulled out, and Somali warlords battled for control, then eventually gave way to Al Shabaab militants.
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.
Nor any means to manage brutally complicated Afghan politics, including: Pashtuns versus smaller ethnic groups, Pashtun ties over the "Durand line" into Pakistan, divisions among Pashtuns (particularly Durranis versus Ghilzais), rural religious conservatives versus urban religious liberals, and sundry regional warlords battling for money and control.
Most comics aimed at boys at the time were war comics – Victor, Warlord, Battle, and the Commando pocket books.
A return to Islam, so feared by the West, is how decent people have protected themselves in the Mad Max world of warlord battles and extortion that has prevailed since 1990.
Most notably Fazl, who has been accused of many horrifying war crimes and human rights abuses, and Noori had surrendered in 2001 to Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is now Afghanistan's vice president, but at the time was a warlord battling against the Taliban, in northern Afghanistan.
In 1995, with anarchy continuing, the U.N. withdrew from Somalia, leaving the warlords to battle it out.
