When discussing American military spending and defense industrial base policy in the context of great power competition with ...

we have to go all the way back to the Napoleonic Wars on 1815. That was the last time the British Army was the size it is now. During the 19th century, it grew and reached a peak with conscription ...

Britain's credibility as a debtor was fundamental to its ability to finance the fight against Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic ... the British Army remained small throughout the war, the ...