Pax Americana built by U.S. Armed Forces
The historian Thomas F. Madden described the United States as “an empire of trust,” a phrase he fashioned to compare modern America with the golden era of the ancient Roman Republic. According to Madden, both the American and the Roman republics grew into sovereign powerhouses because external threats stimulated the drive to expand their boundaries of geopolitical influence by means of superior military might, used to transform enemies into allies.
St. Francis Dam disaster is a warning for South Valley
It's a sad irony that California's two worst disasters in terms
