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“There are lots of potential Archduke Ferdinand’s riding around and there are an excess of bullets that could be fired by people who are assassins.” “Never in my lifetime have I seen simultaneous crisis along with inability of governments to resolve them,” Ullman said. “The irony is that the forces that grew out of World War I- globalization and the diffusion of power - have conspired today to menace the world,” Ullman told CTV’s Canada AM. When one country was threatened, the world had to respond in kind. Struggling for power, countries like Germany, Russia, Britain, and France made secret agreements that forced an immediate alliance in the event of an attack on their territory. Political tensions throughout Europe were high on June 28, 1914. Similar to the early 1900s, he says that the Middle East is a potential bomb seemingly poised to explode with the slightest provocation. Harlan Ullman, a military analyst and author of “A Handful of Bullets: How the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand still menaces the peace,” draws parallels between the First World War and the conflicts of the 21st century. Saturday marks the anniversary of the shooting, and many are wondering if history will repeat itself.

This lone action spurred the four years of death and chaos of the First World War. A hundred years ago, the Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand, and his pregnant wife Sofia, were shot and killed by a Serbian assassin.