What would realistically be involved in achieving World Domination?

Question

I'm guessing that an aspiring leader would need to create a military that outguns any other allegiance on Earth. Natural resources would also have to be controlled.

World Domination has never happened but some have come close; let us discuss seriously how you would go about it in the world today.

Sensible, educated answers only please- this interests me greatly but before anyone suggests I have some dark motive at heart, I don't!

Answer 1

You wouldn't have any friends but would have a better class of enemy.

Answer 2

knowlegde

Answer 3

It isn't the military that one needs, it's the control of communication.  

If you control communication, most people won't even realize they are being dominated.  Who needs a military when you can convince them there's nothing to fight about?

For those that do catch on, controlling communication means that you can use internal police forces to deal with them, and make them look like the criminals.

If I wanted to control the world, I'd start by becoming the major source of information in the world.

Answer 4

I think world domination is already more or less accomplished, those who dominate us all are a very few, and there is enough to go round for all of them, so why rock the boat?

If any maverick "leader" striving for individual world domination, emerged, then that established elite would more than be able to thwart them, at least they would in a world without nuclear weapons.

Sooner or later another charismatic sociopath, like Hitler, will come along, and they will have control of many nuclear weapons, and when it looks like they're losing everything, they will want to take as many with them as possible.

What a horrible answer! I didn't plan it, it just came out.

Answer 5

Well a miss conception (usually among Americans) is that the USA already dominates the world... tthey don't, they bully it....and there is only an infinate amount of time before the world turns on them at the moment, it tolerates their actions. there are a few things someone who was going to take over the world would have to do.

First is control the people through force or will.

Effectively, once this is done, then you have taken over the world.. The question is really, how do you achieve control of the people?

The closest person to dominate the world in recent times was Adolf Hitler, through aliences with other countries, some by force, the rest through fear, if you could get 3/4 of the world to be dominated, the rest would soon follow because of trade embargoes.. threats of invasion etc.or just by shear brute destruction of their central government..

The trouble with force is when you put pressure on countries, surrounding countries or allies might come to the rescue and effectively wipe your own country out if they are stronger... for instance, if the west invaded say... Korea... China may get involved and right now, China's Army is bigger than all the army's of the world put together.. they have the capacity, today to take over the world if they want to....

Realistically, I think if this was your plan to take over the world, it would depend on where you currently live.. if you are an American or European... you wouldn't have a chance, both economies are going through the floor and soon enough, their super power status could be lost.. to places like China... but if you are Chinese... you may have a hope...

Alternatively.. what better way to take over the world then use media.. and what bit of tech do we all own?.. a computer... so if I was bill gates and I had that sort of plan... the possibilities are endless!

If it was me, I would make a virus that spread through all the PC's of the world.. and I mean everything with a memory.. down to your DVD player! and turn it off all at the same time, so you couldn't trade, transport food or oil.. everything would stop.. including the military.. satelites.. EVERYTHING.. then when everything has fallen apart and there is no infrastructure ... I would ask for surrender.. if they didn't, I would go hand in hand with China, for the full destruction of the now unstable powers.. from USSR.. to London.. all would be mine... then when I had gained complete conrol... I would turn it all back on again.. simple really....

Answer 6

Pretty much all you just said... but i think it would be nigh impossible, given the current power of nuclear weapons. Even a country as small as Britain could wipe out the entire populus of the Earth if it so wished.

Actually... there you go: gain control of the world's nuclear weapons. Hold the Earth to ransom. Win!

And when you are World Leader, remember who gave you this wonderful little tidbit of advise.

Answer 7

Strict control of the Middle East.

America already has the military, but we remember what happened to Germany during WWII.

The BEST soldiers and equipment in the world are worthless, without petroleum.

Answer 8

It would very likely be impossible.  You'd have to control all of the resources going out, and watch the entire world for any 'serious' rebellions.  You'd have to keep your technology updated past all others, and I'm sure that fairly quickly you would be overthrown due to a single careless mistake.

For one person to dominate the world, they'd have to be, I dunno, God or something.

In fact, if you think about it, World Domination has been accomplished.  Just not by a person, or a single religion.  But religion all together.

Or maybe I'm rambling, at this time of morning you can never be sure.

Answer 9

well you'd have to force everyone to sumbit to your will, either by fear of military consequences, or by unanimous agreement of you as world leader.

Answer 10

by putting the fear of god in your nations people it doesnt have to be true just as long as the fear is there, so no matter how morally wrong your decisions will be they will turn a blind eye and even help you if they are the military :)

Answer 11

Mass population controll, kill billions. Weather controll makes a good weapon. Chip em all .

Answer 12

Ask Obama and his wife they are well on their way to making it happen.

Answer 13

A serious, educated answer would say

a) it should not be tried    and

b) it would be impossible to police anyway

Answer 14

electing obomba

Answer 15

World domination would be a terrible burden. You'd have the rest of the world trying to over throw you. You'd basically be a jailer. Being a jailer takes a lot of energy.  That said, control of petroleum would give you world domination.

Answer 16

i think no.2 said it best when trying to explain this to dr. evil. there is no world to take over anymore, only corporations.