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During the Cold War, the Soviets (and also to some extent the Red Chinese) put a good deal of effort into undermining and destroying the colonial empires of the Western powers. This lead to much of Africa being a corrupt mess, with various artificial construct "countries" gaining an...

Well, that does require line-of-sight. Might be a bit impractical in some environments.

Depends on what "losses" we're talking about. Losses in the sense of casualties - people killed in the war? Yes, some other countries lost a whole lot more people, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of their population. But I think the other poster was talking more about money spent...

The UK was once the preeminent naval power. What went wrong?

Where do they have the factories where they make all that stuff, and who do they employ there?

I think part of the problem is that if one makes the security rules too much of a bother to comply with, people are going to start to ignore them. I've seen this in the IT industry.

Some of them are blurry on the concept.

Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, the main argument against Democracy has always been that it means all the stupid people get to vote.

Depends. Wait long enough, and that enemy republic has a likelihood of corrupting into a plutocracy/kleptocracy. A monarchy in which everyone* sincerely loves the king, because he's a high-charisma figure who also enacts wise policies, would be a high-patriotism culture as well. * Not...

Well, I think arguments about a career in the military meaning they pay for your education/etc sound good in peacetime.

How do you know for certain?

Zach, if there were US military people in either of those countries, would you know?

Here's the thing: in a country that's on a serious war footing, there's generally serious "We are all in this together!" feeling. People who were being pushed to the side are suddenly being told "Join up, your country needs you!" Being on the frontline as part of an army unit who have to all...

That's the question really: what is a "proper" empire? Are we to imagine the USA using the threat of military force to extort tribute payments from vassal countries? Or invading other countries, looting all their national treasures, taking over the government of those places and taxing them...

The question is whether they can give such orders with any realistic expectation of being obeyed. They are also becoming divided against each other now, so any one faction of them that openly came out with "you know what, let's just ditch this whole constitution thing, have no more elections...

Zach, I don't claim any detailed knowledge of US military rules, but it looks there as if you are making a very shaky assumption: That Leftist SJW types can be trusted to follow the written rules of whatever organization they infiltrate. They shouldn't be! Leftists don't follow other people's...

If you shoot down every drone that comes within a certain radius of your position, you are thereby telling the OpFor where the stuff that you don't want them to see is. Just saying...

Big stomping mechs are for intimidating primitive peoples who don't have access to rockets and launchers. Something something Second Amendment... Also, since when do fighter pilots count as "uneducated masses"? The MI was fighting an enemy that depended heavily on melee combat and sheer...

Time was, when adultery was recognized as a serious wrongdoing, and women who got caught doing it got punished. Just saying.

The consumer culture of buying a new cellphone every few months would take a hit. People would have to learn to keep using older devices for longer.