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Originally posted by pheal
Yeah but today conquests don't take years to achieve. We're not centurions anymore. Today's wars make the face of the world change faster than ever.
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I would venture to say the opposite is true or more accurately that things haven't changed all that much.
In a four year period Julius Caesar defeated Gaul and invaded England. How about the conquests of Alexander, Genghis Kahn. or the Muslim Caliphates? The map of Europe had been subject to nearly continual change as the result of wars.
We live in a time when there is a paradigm that the borders of today should be the borders of tomorrow. This idea was championed by Woodrow Wilson.
There have been many wars in the post World War II era that were grinding wars of attrition and not quick conquests. The US in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan are excellent examples.