Roman PMI

Plus
-Military strength is the most obvious similarity.
-Romans had the best training,biggest budget, and finest equipment that the world have ever seen in their time.
- Romans were known for their infrastructure, including their Roads (or Via) as well as their engineering feats with bridges and aqua ducts, built primarily to enable their military to move more quickly.
-China is a socialist and communist country that is slowly turning its back on its soul and embracing it nemesis, capitalism.
-. Romans embraced their status as masters of the known world; however, few Americans would claim bragging rights on their own imperialism.
Minus
-United States has deployed any ruling consuls in any sovereign lands.
-The rest of the world undoubtedly knew their strength and consequently feared the Romans as well.
-Romans had to excel at both the art of winning wars as well as the winning the cultural battle often times found in political circles, considering that the Roman empire spanned continents as well as vast cultural divides. Rome’s greatest conquest was the seduction of its’ peoples.
-The United States with the Iraq war has learned that the “American” way does not always work.
- The fall of the Roman Empire occurred primarily due to a lack of foresight as well.
Interesting
-Rome was the Superpower of its time, as United States is the Superpower now.
-The Internet began as a military tool, and arguably is one of the most superior inventions of our time, bringing whole nations together in mere nanoseconds.
- United States offers Starbucks, my personal favorite, Wal-Mart for 24/7 shopping convenience, and Disneyland for entertainment, just to name a few.
-The Roman and American models of government and capitalism are based on the principles of progress through utilization of it’s work force with the lure of the good life as an individual’s goal
- Those highways find their counterpart in the Internet, or better known as the information Superhighway.