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The precedent of the army-made emperorThe birth of the Rome–Persia rivalryThe empire never fully recoveredThe lost West to be reconqueredOverextension exhausts ByzantiumTwo empires bled whiteThe Muslim advance and the rise of the FranksThe conquest of the Holy LandCollision at the western frontierThe long weakening of imperial ChinaA rich empire for the Northmen to raidUnified China → the prize of the steppeThe mandate to rule all ChinaLongbow tactics honed in ScotlandThe Norman English crown turns northRussia's revenge for CrimeaCreated the independent Balkan statesThe Prussian military modelNitrate for the guns of EuropeKitchener's imperial warsFrom Omdurman to the World WarForeign domination of ChinaRussia seizes ManchuriaSuperpower struggle in AfricaThe African proxy-war templateThe Cold War's largest African battlefieldThe Reagan Doctrine's proxy warsCold War arms and alignmentsPakistan the frontline stateBritish counter-insurgency experiencePeace-process and power-sharing modelsRoman Expansion Reaches GaulCaesar's Empire → Jewish RevoltGaul: Rome's Richest ProvinceCaesar's Army, Caesar's PowerCaesar's Rhine Crossing Sets the StageAugustus Seeks a Tidier EmpireThe Rhine Line Rome Could Never HoldEmpire Creates Jewish CrisisThe Principate's Fatal FlawAthens Rises — Then OvercorrectsGreek Exhaustion Enables MacedoniaThe Revenge War — 150 Years LaterHellenistic Judea — From Alexander to RomeRome Rises — Then Bears the WeightThe Map Alexander DrewDiaspora & Holy Land ClaimsPower Vacuum in the WestRollo's Descendants Conquer EnglandNorse Convert, Then CrusadeByzantine Crisis → First CrusadeCrusades Weakened Byzantium's DefenseOttoman Power Reshapes European PoliticsEnglish Crown's French ClaimsCompeting Sacred ClaimsBlack Death → Social UpheavalSame WarWar Debt → TaxationFrench RevengeFrench Bankruptcy → RevolutionRevolutionary IdeologyLiberty & Universal RightsNapoleon's Failed ReconquestLiberty & Republican IdeasAbolition & Revolutionary IdeologyRevolution Produces NapoleonBlack Republic Terrifies SlaveholdersUnresolved British TensionsImpressment & BlockadesSpanish Empire CollapsesSlavery in New TerritoriesPolitical Instability LegacyVeterans to the FrontierNational ReunificationBuffalo Soldiers & Frontier CavalryImperial CompetitionTreaty of Paris Transfers the PhilippinesAn American Colony in Japan's PathAmerica's First Counterinsurgency PlaybookRussian HumiliationJapanese Imperial ExpansionRussian Military Failure → ReformEastern Question & Ottoman DeclineBalkan Powder KegUnresolved South Slav NationalismZimmermann TelegramRussian RevolutionSoviet Union Born in WarStalin's RiseFascism's RiseFascist Dress RehearsalHitler's Fatal MiscalculationPacific Theater of WWIICommunist China & Korean DivisionTreaty of VersaillesKorea Divided at 38th ParallelJapanese Occupation → DecolonizationColonial Legitimacy DestroyedCounterinsurgency Doctrine ExchangeDomino TheoryNixon's Bombing & Khmer Rouge RiseGeopolitical ImpunityColonial Borders & Post-War IndependenceProxy Arms RacePowell DoctrinePost-War Middle East MapSykes-Picot BordersPost-War DivisionProxy ConflictPost-Cold War OrderContainment Tested in BloodHolocaust → Jewish StatehoodArab Humiliation → Nasser's RevolutionNasser's MiscalculationOccupation → RestorationOil Weapon → Petro-PoliticsPalestinian Refugees Destabilize LebanonPLO Relocates to LebanonHezbollah & Iran's Axis of ResistanceIraqi Debt → Invasion of KuwaitProxy State DefenseSoviet Vietnam Accelerates CollapseMujahedeen → Taliban → 9/11Soviet Invasion → Mujahedeen → TalibanUS Bases → Al-Qaeda's Grievance9/11 → War on Terror ExpansionUnfinished BusinessTito's Death & Cold War EndWartime Atrocities UnresolvedProxy Arms & Ignored WarningsSoviet Collapse → SeparatismRussian Military Doctrine & Siege WarfareAnti-Communist AlignmentISIS: Born in an American PrisonBa'ath Party & Soviet AlignmentSoviet Collapse → Contested BordersEastern Front MemoryUnresolved NakbaOccupation of Gaza1953 Coup → 1979 RevolutionIranian AscendancyMissile & Deterrence DoctrineGaddafi's Pariah StateNATO Intervention PrecedentProxy Arena & MilitiasColonial BordersDefeat Abroad → War at HomeTudor CentralizationThe Sea Road Both WaysThe First RehearsalKorea as the Prize AgainThe Scholars and the ThreatThe Same Army, the Other OceanThe Tercio Goes NorthHabsburg EncirclementOne Trade Network, Two HemispheresAn Army With Nowhere Else to GoIsolation, Shock, and Crash ModernisationSilver Paid for the TerciosThe Truce Expires into a Wider WarHow to Depose a KingClosing the Eastern RoutesSilver Financed the HabsburgsThe Turn to African SlaveryThe Land QuestionContinental VeteransBalance of PowerPragmatic SanctionSilesia → Diplomatic RevolutionRights of EnglishmenQing Collapse → Japanese ExpansionAsia Power VacuumBritish Commercial SupremacyQing Humiliation Fuels Millenarian RevoltQing Collapse and the Self-Strengthening MovementBritish Military OverstretchBritish Colonial Military DoctrineAlsace-Lorraine and the Road to 1914German General Staff Model Adopted GloballySouth African Imperial CompetitionConcentration Camps, Guerrilla War, and Imperial OverstretchRights of Man Cross the AtlanticLouisiana SoldConcert of Europe FraysThe Eastern QuestionRussia Turns EastThe Powder Keg of EuropePershing's RehearsalWar → Revolution → Civil WarBirth of the Soviet UnionExporting the RevolutionReclaiming the EmpireJapanese Imperial AmbitionWWII Begins in AsiaDress RehearsalThe Red Army Looks WeakDecolonizationColonial BordersBuried Ethnic WoundsSpillover into CambodiaThe Soviet VietnamMujahideen → Taliban → 9/11Veterans & a Globalized JihadThe Federation Comes ApartSoviet Collapse → SeparatismAfter the Superpowers LeftPalestinian Refugees Shift the BalancePutin's TemplateThe Kosovo PrecedentISIS SpilloverThe Lesson of InterventionEntrenching the Axis of ResistanceRegime Change RevisitedLimited Expeditionary Warfare🗡️336–323 BCMacedonian Conque…🏛️499–449 BCPersian Wars⚔️475–221 BCWarring States⚔️431–404 BCPeloponnesian War🐘264–146 BCPunic Wars🦅58–50 BCGallic Wars🏛️49–31 BCRoman Civil Wars🪓12 BC–16 ADGermanic Wars🕎66–135 ADJewish-Roman Wars⚔️235–284 ADCrisis of the 3rd…🏛️376–476 ADFall of Western R…🏛️533–554 ADWars of Justinian☦️602–628 ADByzantine–Sasania…☪️632–750 ADIslamic Conquests🐉755–763 ADAn Lushan Rebelli…👑768–814 ADCharlemagne's Cam…⛵793–1066Viking Age⚜️1337–1453Hundred Years' War🕌1453Fall of Constanti…🌹1455–1487Wars of the Roses🛡️1095–1291The Crusades🐎1206–1368Mongol Conquests🏹1066–1071Norman Conquest🏴1296–1357Scottish Independ…🛡️1494–1559The Italian Wars⚔️1519–1533Spanish Conquest …🏯1560–1615Sengoku Japan🦁1568–1648Eighty Years' War🐢1592–1598The Imjin War⛪1618–1648Thirty Years' War🏛️1642–1651English Civil War🤴1701–1714War of the Spanis…👸1740–1748War of the Austri…🌲1754–1763French & Indian W…🏰1756–1763Seven Years' War🔔1775–1783American Revoluti…⛓️1791–1804Haitian Revolution🔴1792–1802French Revolution…👑1803–1815Napoleonic Wars⚓1812–1815War of 1812🦅1846–1848Mexican-American …🚢1839–1860The Opium Wars🏥1853–1856Crimean War⚔️1861–1865American Civil War🏹1860s–1890American Indian W…🐉1850–1864Taiping Rebellion🐯1857–1858Indian Rebellion …🏰1870–1871Franco-Prussian W…☦️1877–1878Russo-Turkish War⚓1879–1884War of the Pacific🏜️1881–1899The Mahdist War🛡️1879Anglo-Zulu War🌍1880–1902The Boer Wars🚢1898Spanish-American …☀️1899–1902Philippine-Americ…🥊1899–1901Boxer Rebellion⛵1904–1905Russo-Japanese War⚔️1912–1913Balkan Wars🌵1910–1920Mexican Revolution🪖1914–1918World War I☭1917–1922Russian Civil War✊1936–1939Spanish Civil War🐉1937–1945Second Sino-Japan…❄️1939–1940Finnish Winter War✈️1939–1945World War II☢️1947–1991Cold War✡️1948–1949Arab-Israeli War🪖1950–1953Korean War🌿1955–1975Vietnam War🚢1956Suez Crisis⚡1967Six-Day War🌍1967–1970Nigerian Civil Wa…🕯️1973Yom Kippur War🌙1954–1962Algerian War🌍1960–1965Congo Crisis⚔️1965–1999Indo-Pakistani Wa…☘️1968–1998The Troubles🌍1975–2002Angolan Civil War💀1975–1979Cambodian Genocide🌲1975–1990Lebanese Civil War💀1980–1988Iran-Iraq War🏔️1979–1989Soviet-Afghan War⚓1982Falklands War🛢️1990–1991Gulf War🕊️1991–2001Yugoslav Wars🕯️1994Rwandan Genocide🐺1994–2009Chechen Wars🏔️2001–2021War in Afghanistan🪖2003–2011Iraq War🌻2022–presentRussia-Ukraine War🔥2023–presentIsrael-Hamas War🕌2011–presentSyrian Civil War🌅2011–presentLibyan Civil War🚀2025–presentUS–Iran Conflict🏜️2023–presentSudan Civil War
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