So you are saying in a stateless society private defense agencies would battle over ANWR with stealth bombers? Have you any idea what that would cost? It wouldn’t be anywhere near profitable. War isn’t very lucrative, that’s why only states do it. It’s a huge investment, you need to pay the manpower and guns… how are you going to sell that to your investors? Then you need to garrison the place to defend it. And you still need to mine the resources, which barely breaks even in a lot of cases. Even if it’s likely that you will be able to conquer some resource, before you can earn back your investment someone’s going to steal it from you. The more profitable it is, the more someone will want to take it from you. The last owner would probably rather blow it up than to hand it over intact. And owning resources isn’t really that valuable in a developed economy anyways, it’s all about information and services. Every investor will rather put his money in internet stock than some plot to conquer ANWR. The kind of large-scale force you are talking about wouldn’t be economically feasible, it simply wouldn’t exist. There’s no economically worthwhile purpose for stealth bombers and I don’t think any larger force than a few people with guns has ever existed in a stateless environment.