America is just a better version of the Roman Empire

[wishIwasSalludon]

America spreads enlightenment and progress everywhere without the baggage of having to live under the rule of foreigners they still have freedom



@anthony111553

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

America spread enlightenment and progress everywhere without the baggage of having to live under the rule of foreigners they still have freedom



@anthony111553

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[wishIwasSalludon]

America spread enlightenment and progress everywhere without the baggage of having to live under the rule of foreigners they still have freedom



@anthony111553

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[New Poster]

such an original comparison

 

[Deleted member 53646]

true

 

[Deleted member 46979]

and it's suffering the same fate. lol if you haven't prepared for civil war. it's not even conjecture at this point, it'll happen inside of a decade, guaranteed.

 

[Luffymaxxing]

So it will collapse ?

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

and it's suffering the same fate. lol if you haven't prepared for civil war. it's not even conjecture at this point, it'll happen inside of a decade, guaranteed.

Keep talking enlighten me more

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

So it will collapse ?

All countries collapse eventually but America will leave its mark on the world and unlike most countries we can say we’ve left a positive mark on the world.

 

[autistic_tendencies]

All countries collapse eventually but America will leave its mark on the world and unlike most countries we can say we’ve left a positive mark on the world.

Lol America is the cause of all the worlds degeneracy
You delusional

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

Lol America is the cause of all the worlds degeneracy
You delusional

Copemaxxing

 

[MaghrebGator]

Pretty much sure that the jews didn't run the Roman Empire

 

[Deleted member 46979]

Lol America is the cause of all the worlds degeneracy
You delusional

2% of americans to be more precise

 

[Deleted member 23391]

America is infinitely more gay, retarded, and jewish

 

[XtrovertNTnormalfag]

Roman empire was a land power, like Germany or Russia.
USA is a naval empire.
Completely wrong comparation, on literally all levels.

 

[italiangigaChad]

Pretty much sure that the jews didn't run the Roman Empire

nero was… you can see how that went

 

[SubSigma]

Roman empire was a land power, like Germany or Russia.
USA is a naval empire.
Completely wrong comparation, on literally all levels.

Rome was a land power and a sea power after they destroyed Carthage. They had no rivals in the Mediterranean same with the US having no true rival navy. The Romans also had their troops spread throughout the empire and had alliances with barbarian tribes. The US has bases spread all over the world and plenty of puppet states (Poland, Germany, Japan, South Korea).

 

[wishIwasSalludon]

Rome was a land power and a sea power after they destroyed Carthage. They had no rivals in the Mediterranean same with the US having no true rival navy. The Romans also had their troops spread throughout the empire and had alliances with barbarian tribes. The US has bases spread all over the world and plenty of puppet states (Poland, Germany, Japan, South Korea).

dogpilled

 

[Wallenberg]

How was ancient Greece compared to Rome?

 

[XtrovertNTnormalfag]

Rome was a land power and a sea power after they destroyed Carthage. They had no rivals in the Mediterranean same with the US having no true rival navy. The Romans also had their troops spread throughout the empire and had alliances with barbarian tribes. The US has bases spread all over the world and plenty of puppet states (Poland, Germany, Japan, South Korea).

By Matthew Merighi, from Secretary of defense

The role of the United States in contingency operations is changing. In all of the large-scale international interventions of the past few years, namely Libya, Mali, and the Central African Republic, the United States' contributions consisted primarily of transport capacity in both the seas and the skies to bring foreign ground forces to the conflict. This trend appears unprecedented for a global power to pursue its interests but, as the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. The ancient maritime power of Carthage utilized the same strategy effectively in the fourth century B.C

For those who are unfamiliar, Carthage was a preeminent maritime power for hundreds of years in the Mediterranean. Presaging Alfred Thayer Mahan and 19th century European colonial powers, Carthage embraced an empire not built by massive land holdings but by a disparate collection of trading spheres, ranging from Spain to Sicily, connected by the era's most powerful navy. There were very few powers that could challenge them on the open seas, making the Western Mediterranean a Carthaginian lake by which it could generate wealth. Most people know the Carthaginians as the enemies of Rome in the era of Hannibal but that was not always the case.

Up until their first dramatic clash in the third century B.C., the Romans and Carthaginians were allies of convenience. The Carthaginians faced consistent incursions from Numidians in North Africa and colonial wars with the Greeks in Sicily while the Romans had to contend with Greek colonies and restive Samnites to their south. This culminated in the early fourth century B.C. when the Carthaginians used their navy to transport Roman legions to the south to fight their common Greek enemies.

Carthage did not have to sacrifice any men to achieve their foreign policy objectives and the Romans, without naval lift, would have spent a much longer time marching their army south through dangerous territory. The Carthaginians were thus able to find manpower to handle operations they could not undertake and the Romans gained rapid mobility. Both sides profited from the arrangement.

The United States is in a similar position in the modern as Carthage was in the ancient world. The United States has unmatched transport capacity in both the maritime and air domains, evidenced in all possible measures: numbers of sea/air transport vehicles, total cargo capacity, and experience in deployment logistics. Many other nations have tactical transports but very few others have either the numbers of strategic-level transports or the financial resources necessary to support long deployments. This situation gives the United States a unique position to influence global deployment of forces; it offers a quasi-veto to undesirable deployments and a force-multiplier for operations that it wants to see conducted.

While the United States has unmatched transport capacity, there are a host of reasons why the United States cannot project its power simultaneously to tackle every global crisis: ongoing operations in Afghanistan, a lack of popular support for committing troops overseas, and tightening budgets restrict the United States. Carthage had similar limitations, due primarily to budgets and the mercenary make-up of their armed forces, which they circumvented in their wars against the Greeks by leveraging Roman manpower. The United States is already doing the same for France in Mali and the United Nations in the Central African Republic.

The story of transport supremacy did not end well for Carthage. In the First Punic War, fought a scant few years after the common war against the Greeks, the Romans raised a substantial navy and challenged Carthage's dominance on the seas. Defeat in that war, combined with the defeats in the Second and Third Punic wars, would spell the end of Carthage's empire. While the Carthaginians ushered in their doom by providing transport supremacy to their eventual conquerors, the United States is in no such risk of the same, allowing it to leverage the policy without stoking an existential threat to its existence.

The future looks bright for those with transport supremacy.

Matthew Merighi is a civilian employee with the United States Air Force. His views do not reflect those of the United States Government, Department of Defense, or Air Force.

This article originally appeared at CIMSEC and was republished with permission