(December 6, 2011 at 3:47 pm)Chuck Wrote: Actually, Roman empire adopted to the changes to Cavalry just fine. What doomed western Roman Empire was unsteady domestic politics, declining infrastructure and weakening demographics.
Interesting. My understanding of the battles of Adrianople and their equally devastating loss against the Huns (I forget the name of that battle), is that their enemies at both battles had a decisive edge on cavalry.
Quote:I think in some ways, by attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese may not have laid the foundation of their own victory, but they may have laid an important part of the foundation of America's eventual downfall by making a toxic paranoid seige mentality a permament part of American discourse on national security.
America didn't have a siege mentality until 9/11 and then it seems we went batshit crazy.
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