Ha yes, thanks … though, without knowing, I’d wonder how early you can push the global power part (thus the question mark). Post-war (your 70 years) is clearly a “the global power” status. But how early could you say the US was at least one of the major powers?
That’s an interesting question of which I’m ignorant. Your original comment may have been right though. It might be helpful to say a global power fights wars outside of its border and potentially colonizes. The first time the USA did that was the first Barbary war in 1801. Would you agree?
Yes they seem like reasonable metrics to me. But like you I don’t really know how to answer the question. But relative economic strength and influence are likely factors. So the post civil war gilded age would also been a likely point, which was the origin of my 150 yrs estimate. For 100 years, I figured post WWI was a pretty clear moment of relative strength.
Just correcting small typos. US has been independent for almost 250 not 350 years. Global power for 150ish but the global power for 70ish years :)
Ha yes, thanks … though, without knowing, I’d wonder how early you can push the global power part (thus the question mark). Post-war (your 70 years) is clearly a “the global power” status. But how early could you say the US was at least one of the major powers?
That’s an interesting question of which I’m ignorant. Your original comment may have been right though. It might be helpful to say a global power fights wars outside of its border and potentially colonizes. The first time the USA did that was the first Barbary war in 1801. Would you agree?
Yes they seem like reasonable metrics to me. But like you I don’t really know how to answer the question. But relative economic strength and influence are likely factors. So the post civil war gilded age would also been a likely point, which was the origin of my 150 yrs estimate. For 100 years, I figured post WWI was a pretty clear moment of relative strength.
Then I apologize for my wrong correction but I learned something with you through it :D
No worries at all!
Also, I didn’t know at all about the Barbary Wars (and was quite surprised to hear of such a far flung US military engagement so early)
They were sick of paying pirate taxes!