Originally Posted by maddog
Many years ago I used to occasionally play the board game Risk with my university mates. The games would go on for hours and hours because as soon as anyone got into a dominant position they would try and take over the world to win the game. This would invariably stretch that person's resources and attention so much they would leave a weak point for someone else to exploit and attack. As soon as that happened someone else would attack somewhere else and very quickly the person who had been in the strong position was overrun by everyone else. Then the cycle would begin again as another player would dominate, expand, get stretched and then get broken