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December 30, 2006
Military Buildup ... Of Peace
Did the Spanish American War
mark the beginning of the end for the United States?
Yet, we're not a nation bent on military conquest. The last territorial expansion we had as a country that came from a military conflict was the Spanish American War in 1900. However, if look back at countries in the past who were the undisputed military superpower of their day (the Roman Empire, 1600s Spain, Victorian England, etc.), they started to decline when they stopped expanding. If it weren't for World War II and the Cold War, we would have declined as a nation a long time ago with our current geopolitical thinking.
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Posted on December 30, 2006 02:41 PM by spanis814.
Filed in War Stories under spanish american war.
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