"As with Rome, the American military has been the wall behind which a system of safe trade has allowed an extraordinary degree of specialization and therefore mutually sustained prosperity."
"Our enemies and most of our "allies" and many of our own citizens are working as hard as possible to bring the whole thing crashing down, though that is not at all what they intend. They just haven't learned the lessons -- the principles -- of how great economic empires are maintained.
They only look at the political dogmas du jour and spout their platitudes. People like me are ridiculed for seeing the big picture and learning the lessons of history."
In this
article, Card examines the role of the Roman armies on the fall of Rome and ties this into the US army and its role in maintaining the civilization we know today.
