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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  Show me where diplomacy has acheived the at least hundred year mediteranean peace of the pax Romana and I'll eat my toga. I never said it was a particuarly wise policy, look at the Romans, but it does work to acheive a lack of war for serious amounts of time if you can sustain the superior force. |
This is pretty backwards, rome conquered wherever it went and maintained it through continous violence. It was one continous war. who do you think the barbarians were that eventually beat back rome were? they were the people the romans were eyeing to attack and subjugate next. and they got help from forces within rome.