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« on: May 09, 2011, 03:54:46 PM »
Clue: Global power
Ok, let me answer it today.
As mentioned in the introduction, analogy is a comparison. But here we'r trying to make it tricky by comparing military strategy with business strategy. But you have to first find out what we are talking about (i.e Four Policemen & Oneworld Alliance) and then you make the comparison (i.e. between four policemen and oneworld alliance)
War Strategy: Four Policemen
The Four Policemen" was a term coined by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to refer to four major Allies of World War II and founders of the United Nations (UN): the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China
It was a pragmatic system based on the primacy of the strong — a "trusteeship of the powerful," as he then called it, or, as he put it later, "the Four Policemen." The concept was "anything but a wild-eyed internationalist dream of a world state.... It is based virtually on a four-power alliance." Eventually this proved to be both the potential strength and the actual weakness of the future UN, an organization theoretically based on a concert of great powers whose own mutual hostility, as it turned out, was itself the greatest potential threat to world peace. Each of the Four Policemen was to maintain order in its respective sphere: Britain in its empire and in Western Europe; the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the central Eurasian landmass; China in East Asia and the Western Pacific; and the United States in the Western Hemisphere [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Policemen]
Business Strategy: Oneworld Alliance
Oneworld is one of the world's three largest global airline alliances with its central management team, Oneworld Management Company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Oneworld was founded in 1999 by American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Qantas. The alliance slogan is oneworld revolves around you and its vision statement is "To generate more value for customers, shareholders and employees than any airline can achieve by itself."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneworld]
Business alliance helped these airlines reach more customers and destinations unreachable before by an individual company. This is similar to the military strategy of securing the vast world by the so called policemen
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