Not China
It's not a coincidence that all great ancient empires were built by hyper-militaristic cultures. You achieve what you optimize for.
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Yet...?
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True. But i think we've maxed out this paradigm for the modern age
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Without a hyper-effective cyber-military, do I gather we’re cooked?
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Historically, this has been true, but I doubt it will be so in the future. The next great empires (likely China, India) will win via soft power, spreading culture and $$ to win hearts and minds
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i wouldn’t exactly call xi jinping a “soft power” kind of guy
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Natural selection at work in culture.
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Khmer, China, Egypt, Rome or Inca, the condition to territorial dominance was the administration channelling food to central power. Military was only enabled by that. Greece or Mongol would be a different model based on conquest and short term by design. No direct causality then.
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