Are usually We Rome?: The Drop of an Empiré and the Faté of UsaClick the title to buy this book by Cullen Murphy Houghton Mifflin 272 pages |
Imagine a small agrarian republic that gradually grows into the world's greatest military and cultural superpower. Over time, as open public power is certainly focused in the fingers of a relatively small group of rich private people, that judgment elite falls significantly out of touch with the globe beyond its borders. Those borders, porous and steadily expanding, turn out to be ever even more challenging to control and protect. Faltering under the increasing problem of policing them, the military is compelled to generate significant mercenary assistance to handle issues that might arise, as well as those already under way. Eventually, dropping its grasp on strength both in house and externally, the superpower enters a condition of accelerating decline, ultimately fading into a shadów of its former wonder.