FEATURE: "Location Gives Tiny State Prime Access to Big Riches," by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 30 May 2008, p. A6.

Fascinating story.

Hundreds of millions in FDI flow suddenly.

Hmm. Maybe because the U.S. military now makes Djibouti, through its Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa presence at Camp Lemonier, an "outpost of relative stability in the Horn of Africa"?

Gold miners from India, geothermal experts from Iceland, Turkish hotel managers, Saudi oil engineers, French bankers and U.S. military contractors, so notes the NYT, are suddenly popping up all over this tiny country.

Big news is Dubai World investing to take the port from 300,000 containers per year to 3 million.

The military-market nexus? You bet.

And no rounds fired in anger by CJTF-HOA in five years.

Perpetual war, my ass.