"Karni na Amurka" wani zango ne da ake amfani da shi wajen bayyana mamayar Amurka a karni na 20. Babban abin da ya bai wa Amurka matsayinta shi ne karfin sojojinta. Shigar Amurka yakin Duniya na Biyu ita ce ta ci yakin, kuma gagarumin shirin gina soji da ta yi ya fitar da ita daga matsalar Babban Koma Bayan Tattalin Arziki. Lokacin da Amurka ta jefa bama-baman nukiliya na farko a duniya kan Japan, hakan ya tabbatar da cewa ta fi kowace kasa karfi. Karfin sojin Amurka ne ya sa ta kera makamai masu linzami da ke dauke da kaya masu nauyi kuma suna tafiya mafi nisa fiye da na Tarayyar Soviet. Irin wadannan ci gaba ne suka sa Amurka ta fi Tarayyar Soviet a sararin samaniya. Ci gaban sojin Amurka ya kuma haifar da fasahohin da mutane da yawa ke dauka da sauki, amma yanzu sun zama jigo a rayuwar karni na 21. Intanet, lambobin barcode, alkalami mai alama, faifan hard disk, makirufo mara waya, integrated circuit, magnetic strip, wayar tarho mara waya, CD na kwamfuta, tsarin tantance wuri na duniya (GPS) da imel na daga cikin kirkire-kirkiren sojin Amurka da suka canza al'umma. Saboda haka ne Amurka ta shiga karni na 21 a matsayin kasa mafi karfi a duniya babu abokin hamayya.

The American century is the term that has come to describe the dominance of the US of the 20th century. Central to America’s status has been its military prowess. America’s entry into WW2 won the war, the massive military build up pulled the US out of the great depression. When the US dropped the world’s first nuclear bombs upon Japan, this confirmed America’s edge over every other power. US prowess led it to develop missiles that carried heavier loads and travelled further than the Soviet Unions. It was such developments that led to the US to out do the Soviet Union in space. US military development has led to technologies that many take for granted, but have become key to 21st century lifestyles. The internet, barcodes, marker pen, hard disk drive, wireless microphone, integrated circuit, magnetic strip, cordless phone, computer CD, global positioning system and email are just some US military inventions that have ended up changing society. This is why the US naturally entered the 21st century as the world’s unrivalled power.

A yau yawancin kasafin kuɗin Pentagon yana dogara ne akan jerin buƙatun da aka tsara a lokacin Yakin Cacar Baki. Sojojin Amurka sun kasa lura cewa Tarayyar Soviet ta rushe, kuma babu wata babbar abokiyar hamayya da za ta yi yaƙi da sojojin Amurka.

Today much of the Pentagon budget is based on wish lists that were conceived during the Cold War. The US military failed to notice that the Soviet Union had collapsed and no great-power rival was around to get into any fights with the US military.

Duk da cewa Iraki da Afganistan sun raunana tushen ikon Amurka, wato sojojinta.

However Iraq and Afghanistan have undermined the key to US power, it’s military.

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Does this signal the decline of the US as the world’s superpower?

Ikon Amurka na mulkin al'amuran duniya tun bayan Yakin Duniya na Biyu an gina shi ne bisa karfin sojanta. A yau Amurka ba ta da irin wannan fifiko da take da shi kafin mamayarta ga Iraki. Iraki da Afganistan sun yi tasiri ga karfin Amurka kuma sun rage mata albarkatu. Matsalar tattalin arziki ta duniya ta kara tsananta matsayin Amurka a duniya, domin ta koma ga shiga tsakanin gwamnati irin ta gurguzu don tallafa wa tattalin arzikinta. Saboda irin wadannan kalubale, ana ganin kasancewar Amurka a duniya a matsayin wadda ta wuce kima kuma ba za ta iya ci gaba ba.

America’s control of the international situation since WW2 has been built upon her military strength. Today the US does not enjoy the same primacy as it did prior to its invasion of Iraq. Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted US power and depleted her resources. The global economic crisis further exacerbated America’s standing in the world, as it turned towards Socialist intervention to prop up its economy. Because of such challenges America’s presence in the world is being considered as overstretched and untenable.

Sakamakon rauni da ake gani a Amurka, kalubalen da ke fitowa daga abokan hamayyarta sun karu cikin girma da fadi, kuma yanzu sun fi karfi sosai. Duk da cewa Amurka tana tangal-tangal kuma duk da koma-bayan da ta fuskanta, Amurka har yanzu ita ce babbar kasar duniya, tana tsara ajandar duniya kuma tana rike da daidaiton karfin duniya.

As a result of America’s apparent weakness, the challenges stemming from her competitors have grown in size and scope and today are much stronger. Whilst the US is faltering and despite all the setbacks it has faced the US still remains the world’s dominant power, sets the worlds agenda and controls the global balance of power.

Duk da cewa ƙarfin sojan Amurka ya raunana, Amurka na kashe kuɗi a kan bincike da ci gaban harkokin tsaro fiye da sauran ƙasashen duniya gaba ɗaya. Don haka, ko da yake Amurka na fuskantar ƙalubale mafi girma, mafi zurfi da faɗi, har yanzu tana da babbar fifiko a kimiyya da fasaha a kan sauran duniya. Ba zai yiwu Amurka ta wargaje kamar Tarayyar Soviet ko ta daina zama ƙasa mafi ƙarfi a duniya kamar yadda ya faru da Birtaniya ba, saboda Amurka na ci gaba da riƙe ikon tattalin arziƙinta ta hanyar Dala da kuma fifikonta a masana'antu.

Whilst US military dominance has been undermined the US spends more on defence research and development then the rest of the world combined. So whilst the US faces larger, deeper and broader challenges it still has an immense scientific and technological edge over the rest of the world. It is unlikely the US will disintegrate like the Soviet Union or cease to be the worlds power as is what happened to Britain, because the US still maintains its economic hegemony through the Dollar and its industrial advantage.

Ba za a iya kawar da Amurka daga matsayinta ba sai ta hanyar tashin wata babbar ƙasa.

The US can only really be deposed through the rise of another power.

Kasar Sin tana da masana'antar soja da ta fi ta Rasha ƙarfi, amma tana rasa burin duniya da ake buƙata don cire Amurka a matsayin babbar ƙasar duniya. Ci gaban tattalin arzikinta yana da rauni, kuma haɗin kan yankunanta na iya zama abu mai sauƙin sarrafawa ga Amurka, idan Amurka ta ga ya zama dole. Kullum Sin tana ƙara kama da Japan, tana zama ƙarfin tattalin arziki, amma tattalin arzikin da ba shi da manufofin siyasa da burin duniya zai mayar da ƙasa cikin babbar ƙasar cinikayya kawai, ba babbar ƙasa ta duniya ba.

China has a military industry in better shape than Russia, but it lacks the global ambition necessary to remove the US as the world’s superpower. Its economic development is fragile and its territorial cohesion can be easily manipulated by the US, if the US deemed it necessary. China is every day becoming more and more like Japan and becoming an economic power, however an economy without political aims and global ambitions will turn a nation into a trade powerhouse never a global power.

Rashanci a gefe guda kuwa ya yi nasarar amfani da raunin Amurka ya ƙarfafa kansa a cikin tsoffin jamhuriyoyin Tarayyar Soviet. Duk da haka, Rasha har yanzu tana nesa sosai da tattalin arziki da tushen masana'antu da ake buƙata domin ta ƙalubalanci Amurka kai tsaye. Saboda waɗannan dalilai, Amurka za ta ci gaba da zama babbar ƙasar duniya na tsawon lokaci mai zuwa, duk da cewa tana rauni, domin babu ɗaya daga cikin ƙasashen da za su iya ƙalubalantar Amurka da gaske – China da Rasha – da ke da ƙarfin isa ya kifar da Amurka – a halin yanzu. Burin duniya haɗe da tattalin arziki da masana'antu da suka dace yana da muhimmanci wajen gogayya da manyan ƙasashen duniya. Japan da Jamus suna da burin duniya wanda ya samo asali daga imanin cewa su mutane ne masu daraja fiye da sauran duniya; wannan ya haifar da buƙatar ci gaba da kuma ƙarfafa jama'arsu su bayar da gudummawa ga manufofin mamayar duniya. Yakin Duniya na Biyu ne ya tsayar da ƙasashen biyu. Ci gaban Japan a shekarun 1970 da 1980 ya kasance na tattalin arziki ba na siyasa ba, don haka ya kasance cikin iyakokin Japan. Dukansu Japan da Jamus koyaushe suna rasa albarkatun ma'adinai don su bunƙasa, amma burinsu na duniya ya sa su ƙirƙiro dabaru don shawo kan irin wannan cikas.

Russia on the other hand has managed to take advantage of America’s weakness and strengthen itself in the former Soviet republics. However Russia is still very far from the necessary economy and industrial base needed to pose a direct challenge to the US. For these reasons the US will remain the world’s superpower for the foreseeable future even though it is faltering, because none of the powers who realistically can challenge the US – China and Russia, pose a challenge sufficient enough to topple the US - for the moment Global ambitions intertwined with the appropriate economy and industry is central to competing with the worlds powers. Japan and Germany had global ambitions which came from the belief that they were superior people to the rest of the world; this drove the need to develop and motivated their people to contribute towards the aims of global domination. It took WW2 to stop both nations. Japanese development in the 1970's and 1980's was economic and not political and hence it remained within Japan's borders. Both Japan and Germany have always lacked mineral resources in order to develop but their global ambitions drove them to develop strategies to overcome such obstacles.

Haka kuma Birtaniya da Amurka a lokacin farkon ci gabansu suna da ƙananan al'umma kuma ba su da fasaha da za su iya yin gogayya da abokan hamayyarsu. Burin Birtaniya na mamaye duniya, domin amfana da albarkatun ma'adinanta, ya sa ta ƙirƙiri rundunar ruwa ta zamani, kuma ya mayar da ita babbar ƙasa a duniya a ƙarshen karni na sha takwas. Ci gaban Amurka ya fara ne ta hanyar Juyin Juya Halin Amurka, inda aka kori Birtaniya saboda al'ummar Amurka na son rungumar haƙƙoƙin 'yanci marasa iyaka. Imani da 'manifest destiny', wato imanin Allah cewa Amurka ta asali an ƙaddara ta mamaye nahiyar Arewacin Amurka, ya motsa Amurkawa su yi aiki domin faɗaɗa yankinsu zuwa Yamma. A game da Birtaniya da Amurka, dukkan ƙalubale kawai cikas ne da ke tsaye a hanyar manufofinsu na duniya, kuma sai an cire su (a warware su). Karɓar tsarin Jari-hujja ya haɗa kan al'ummominsu kuma ya ƙarfafa su su yi aiki don bunƙasa ƙasa, wanda hakan ya cika burinsu na duniya.

In a similar manner Britain and the America on the eve of their development had small populations and lacked the technology to compete with their competitors. Britain's global ambitions of colonising the world, to benefit from their mineral resources, drove them to develop a state of the art navy and turned them into the world's superpower by the turn of the 18th century. American development began through the American Revolution where Britain was expelled as the American people wanted to embrace the unalienable rights of freedom. The belief in ‘manifest destiny' this is the divine belief that the original United States was ordained to conquer the North American continent motivated Americans to work for the territorial expansion Westward. In the case of Britain and America all challenges were mere obstacles that stood in the way of global aims and just needed to be removed (solved). The adoption of Capitalism unified their societies and motivated them to work towards developing the nation and in turn fulfilling their global ambitions.

A yau Jamus da Japan suna da tattalin arziki mai karfi, amma ba su da nufin siyasa na canza daidaiton ikon duniya. Birtaniya tana da nufin siyasa da burin, amma wannan bai fassara zuwa masana'antu da tattalin arziki da za su taimaka wa irin wannan burin ba. Indiya har yanzu tana bukatar shawo kan kalubalen cikin gida, kuma ba zai yiwu ba ta taba samun manufofin duniya. Turkiyya ta rage matsayinta zuwa cikin tsarin kasashen duniya da tsare-tsaren da Amurka take da su a duniya. Ko da yake wannan zai sa Turkiyya ta ci gaba da kasancewa mai muhimmanci saboda za ta kare muradun Amurka, irin wannan dabara tana tabbatar da matsayin ikon duniya ne maimakon canza shi.

Today Germany and Japan have strong economies but the lack the political will to change the global balance of power. Britain has the political will and ambition, but this has not translated into an industry and economy that would aid such ambitions. India is still to overcome its domestic challenges and it’s very unlikely it will ever have global aims. Turkey has reduced its role to within the context of the international system and the designs the US has on the world. Whilst this will keep Turkey relevant as it will protect US interests such a strategy secures the position of the world’s power rather than alter it.

Duk da cewa Amurka tana fuskantar kalubale daga manyan abokan hamayya biyu, wato China da Rasha, rahotannin leken asirin Amurka na kasa sun ci gaba da bayyana bukatar Musulunci daga al'ummar Musulmi a sassan duniya a matsayin barazana. Ba tare da kasa ba, al'ummar Musulmi ba za ta iya zama kasa mai jagoranci ba kuma ta kalubalanci Amurka. Barazanar da Khilafah mai yiwuwa ke haifarwa gwamnatin Bush ta ci gaba da maimaitawa, kuma tana cikin dalilan yakin Iraki da na Afghanistan. Babban jami'in sojojin Birtaniya da ya yi ritaya kuma mai ba Firayim Ministan Birtaniya shawara, Janar Richard Dannatt, ya bayyana a wata hira da gidan rediyon BBC Radio 4 cewa manufar yakin Afghanistan ita ce: "akwai wata tsarin Islama wanda idan ba mu adawa da shi ba mu kuma tsaya masa a Kudancin Afghanistan, ko Afghanistan, ko a Kudancin Asiya, to hakika tasirinsa zai karu. Zai iya karuwa sosai, kuma wannan muhimmin batu ne, za mu iya ganin yana motsawa daga Kudancin Asiya zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya zuwa Arewacin Afirka, har zuwa kololuwar daular Khalifanci ta Musulunci a karni na 14 da na 15."31

Whilst the US potentially faces challenges from two challengers, China and Russia, US national intelligence estimates have continued to reiterate the demand for Islam by the Islamic Ummah around the world as a threat. Without a state the Ummah will be unable to become the leading nation and challenge the US. The threat posed by the potential Khilafah was continually reiterated by the Bush administration, it was one of the reasons for both the Iraq and Afghan wars. The retired UK armed forces chief and advisor to the UK Prime Minister, General Richard Dannatt confessed in an interview to the BBC Radio 4 that the objective behind the war in Afghanistan is; "there is an Islamist agenda which if we don't oppose it and face it off in Southern Afghanistan, or Afghanistan, or in South Asia, then frankly that influence will grow. It could well grow, and this is an important point, we could see it moving from South Asia to the Middle East to North Africa, and to the high water mark of the Islamic caliphate in the 14th, 15th century."31

Ƙarfin Amurka ya raunana, rikicin kuɗi ya nuna cewa tattalin arzikin Amurka, mafi girma a duniya, an gina shi ne a kan tarin katunan wasa. Duk da haka, babu wata ƙasa a duniya da a halin yanzu za ta iya fallasa wannan gaskiyar, don haka mamayar Amurka za ta ci gaba. Waɗanda za su iya ƙalubalantar Amurka ko dai ba su da ƙarfin siyasa ba, ko kuma ba su kai matakin ci gaba da zai ba su damar yin gasa a fili kai tsaye da Amurka ba. Saboda haka, duk da cewa Amurka na iya yin tangal-tangal, sakamakon rashin wata madogara mai inganci a matsayin ƙarfi, ba zai yiwu a cire ta ba – a yanzu – daga matsayinta na babbar ƙarfi ta duniya.

Americas prowess has been undermined, the financial crisis has shown the US economy, the worlds largest is built upon a pack of cards, however there is no nation in the world who currently can expose such a reality and hence US dominance will continue. Those who can pose a challenge to the US either lack the political will or have not reached the level of development where they can sustain open and direct competition with the US. Therefore whilst the US maybe faltering, due to the absence of a credible alternative power, it is unlikely to be removed - for the moment as the worlds superpower.