The big players are NATO and Russia. They are on one hand gaining experiance on the ground for their most motivated fighters, but on the other hand pushing their economic systems off market competition and building wealth for the commons to a war industry.
The para-military are in the Middle East all in arms and in a full war stretching over a never as large terretory from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban to Huthi and Hisballah with Hamas kicking off the conflicts media presence.
Other groups like FARC are pushing their control from South to Central America while IRA and ETA are holding off site or any action.
Mighty Syndicates are pushing against national order in Central America and gaining more customers in The West with European Mafia organisations keeping a low profile being ready to repeat historic hits against national order as in Sicily since ever.
The Northern Hemisphere or better all parts dominated by The Wests Secret Services and their clandestine actions is not a powder barrel or mine field. It is a war zone with more and more entetis getting in.
Are you stupid??
