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“A large military establishment may, like a great monument, look imposing to the impressionable observer; but if it is not resting upon a firm foundation (in this case, a productive national economy), it runs the risk of a future collapse.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“The sums acquired by the administrators of this domaine extraordinaire in the period of France’s zenith were quite remarkable and in some ways foreshadow Nazi Germany’s plunder of its satellites and conquered foes during the Second World War.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Conquest has made me what I am and only conquest can enable me to hold my position.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy” is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to protect the flow of oil from Arabia to Yokohama? How”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy” is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to protect the flow of oil from Arabia to Yokohama? How useful if there is another Korean war? How useful if China begins to dominate the region? How”
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
― The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
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