Based on recent entanglement studies, estimates suggest that about 1,500 seals die from entanglement each year in Australia (Page et al., 2003).

Nearly a million seabirds are thought to die from entanglement or ingestion of floatable material each year.

Of the different types of marine mammals, seals and sea lions are the most affected (particularly by entanglement).

It is a vicious killer of wildlife. Entanglement and ingestion are the primary kinds of direct damage to wildlife caused by it.

It is estimated that some 100,000 marine mammals die every year from entanglement or ingestion of fishing gear and related marine debris.

But the debtor countries are nonetheless obliged to service these debts by whatever means necessary, including more borrowing and further entanglement, leading to further impoverishment.

Sea Life Surveys scientists estimate that globally, more than 1 million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year from entanglement in, or ingestion of, plastics.

Moreover, analysts should not limit themselves to the classic instruments of punishment and denial as they assess cyber deterrence. Attention should also be paid to deterrence by economic entanglement and by norms.

The message emanating now from the US is not one of non interventionism, but a strategy of restraint that assumes that there are limits to American power and seeks to minimize the risk of entanglement in foreign conflicts.

The Obama administration, focused on the November presidential election, is not interested in having to deal with a major crisis in Syria in the coming months, and is preoccupied with the risk of being drawn into another military entanglement.

As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.

According to the United States Marine Mammal Commission, 136 marine species have been reported in entanglement incidents in the wider United States area, including 6 species of sea turtles, 51 species of seabirds and 32 species of marine mammals (Marine Mammal Commission, 1996).

Major states with elaborate technical and human resources could, in principle, create massive disruption and physical destruction through cyber attacks on military and civilian targets. Responses to cyber war include a form of interstate deterrence through denial and entanglement, offensive capabilities, and designs for rapid network and infrastructure recovery if deterrence fails.

Likewise, regional stability is a prerequisite of China s stellar economic growth, and military conflict would be a setback for US economic rebirth as well. Indeed, with US defense spending finally set to decline after a decade of debt financed war in Iraq and Afghanistan, America has little fiscal room for an unforeseen military entanglement.