Reply #20: Quest For Empire And Conquest, Ma'am [View All]

Is pretty old hat, and it would be quite difficult to identify the first attempt. Governments always seek to expand to the practical limits of their ability to do so, and continue the attempt till it meets obstacls it cannot overcome. Our government is in the hands of reactionaries and revanchists to whom such actions come as natural as breath itself: these reptiles need no tutors in the game, nor do they require examples to guide them to their misdeeds.

There is neither time, nor probably space, to compile a list of even most of the wars commenced because one power wished to head off a threat it perceived another might become. Very few wars lack some element of that calculation on the part of at least one party to the conflict.