The universal physical currency of this earthly human world would undoubtedly be the otherwise ordinary and comparatively useless yellow metallic element called gold yet for some seemingly illogical reason it is elevated in status as valuable beyond compare . Well known is that political instability in conjunction with military threat and eventual conflict do correlate together in raising the market price of gold .

So much so that it is generally considered that warfare does form the stimulus for any rise in the global world gold price . Very few people however would think that the demand for gold and hence resultant increasing gold price actually does constitute the real stimulus for warfare . Surprising as it may appear it could be stated categorically that no warfare could possibly occur without an increase in both the demand and price of gold .

Warfare along with a whole host of many other nasty and odious aspects of humanity does legally require a general broad based consent of the population . In the case of warfare that consent is obtained by the artificially created attractiveness of gold . Anybody who does obtain and possess and deal in gold is also unwittingly upholding and maintaining the overall practice of warfare .

The jewelry business and trade along with gold bullion as an investment does form a very obvious manifestation for this consent . Another such manifestation would be the small amount of gold used in electronic devices . Many people own or use a mobile phone or a personal computer so this does probably form the ultimate indirect and widest ranging manifestation for consent of warfare .

Gold is synonymous with military strength and capability . Gone are the days when such was determined by sheer numbers of military personnel alone . Military technology and its deployment are now the determiners of military might . Given that gold does provide the means for that military might then the nations with the most gold reserves do effectively determine the most militarily powerful ones . Australia currently holds No 1 position .