Flanked on the east and west by the world’s two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonetheless, the U.S. military had early expanded far beyond what was needed to insure security from external threats. Concomitant with the rapid growth of U.S. industry the military forcefully facilitated commercial agreements and resource capture in distant locations during the 1800s.
The annexation of Hawaii was achieved through regime change; a plantation owners’ coup against the legitimate king. The Spanish-American War (1898) was...
Flanked on the east and west by the world’s two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonethe...
