The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers¶
Kennedy, P. (1987). The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. Random House.
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- Culminating Point
- In imperial history, territorial expansion runs past the cost-of-control equilibrium for Rome, the Mongol khanates, and the Habsburgs alike.
This sourceTreats imperial overstretch — territorial expansion running past the cost-of-control equilibrium for great powers.
- In imperial history, territorial expansion runs past the cost-of-control equilibrium for Rome, the Mongol khanates, and the Habsburgs alike.
- Logistics Overreach
- The prime is closely related to operational overextension, which frames the same geometry as a frontier-to-backbone ratio; logistics overreach emphasises the line's length and consumption rate, where overextension emphasises the ratio, and the two often describe the same failure from two measurement angles.
This sourceDevelops 'imperial overstretch' — the frontier-to-backbone overextension in which a power's commitments outrun the economic base sustaining them — the same geometry framed as a ratio rather than a line length.
- The prime is closely related to operational overextension, which frames the same geometry as a frontier-to-backbone ratio; logistics overreach emphasises the line's length and consumption rate, where overextension emphasises the ratio, and the two often describe the same failure from two measurement angles.
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