You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.