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Sui Dynasty would have been fine if it wasn't so militarily aggressive, and launched two campaigns into Goguryeo. Tang Dynasty took over 30 years to defeat the same foe, and it went into decline after the Anshi Rebellion. A primary reason was that generals were given too much power to grow their forces and conquer, and they used it to obtain personal power, like the military-industrial complex. Song dynasty was never in a position to fight Mongols, since they had lost vast amount of lands to Liao and Jin empire that came before the Mongols.What does internal weakness has to do with agressive is bad theory?
sui dynasty died for his weakass military force,and was replaced by another chinese dynasty,and tang did exactly what sui had did but more succesfully:attack and torn goguryeo into pieces.but coward song dynasty died for their cowardness and replaced by foreign mongolian dynasty,what did you learn from it?
Not going on aggressive goose chase around the world does not mean you do not keep a strong national defence. I notice chickenhawks like to pain anyone who won't support their cause as weak or cowardly, and that's precisely why military industrial complex attracts so much idiots to prop them up. Pure propaganda and stupidity of hawks are like butter to bread.
Look at this quote from Eisenhower: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities … We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."