Lessons From the Roman Art of War | The Art of Manliness

Hmmm...some quotes of note in here taken from Roman times & then modern equivalent:
“For there is no secure possession of wealth, unless it be maintained by defense of arms.”

“Who can doubt that the art of war comes before everything else, when it preserves our liberty and prestige, extends the provinces, and saves the Empire?”

“O men worthy of the highest admiration and praise [the Spartans] who wished to learn that art in particular without which the other arts cannot be.”

"Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail." - Theodore Roosevelt.

Prophetic as the Roman Empire, despite its technological & societal advances, were conquered by a barbarian tribe.