Prior to the war, you still had some such as the Japanese, Italians, and NAZIs that thought teritorial expansion through military means was a viable option to improve economic and domestic political circumstances.
While there have been some wars of seeming expansion since then, like Russia's actions in the Crimea, there have been few and it is considered such a no go that wars of liberation (our action in Kuwait/Iraq) and wars of enforcement of international law (our 2003 Iraq campaign) are often criticized as wars of territorial expansion.
Even without that war ending as it did (meaning the a-bomb), the world society that emerged after WWII would regard expansionist wars as evil and suicidal. Prior to WWII, they were quite successful in many cases and seldom led to wider conflict.
More than the atom bomb (yet, I fear someday we may hear quite a bit more about that if we exist to hear), the war put to bed the notion of territorial expansion as a reasonable national posture.
Wars that emerged from boundaries drawn up at the end of WWII I do not count as wars of territorial expansion, but generally civil wars or wars of repatriation.
While there have been some wars of seeming expansion since then, like Russia's actions in the Crimea, there have been few and it is considered such a no go that wars of liberation (our action in Kuwait/Iraq) and wars of enforcement of international law (our 2003 Iraq campaign) are often criticized as wars of territorial expansion.
Even without that war ending as it did (meaning the a-bomb), the world society that emerged after WWII would regard expansionist wars as evil and suicidal. Prior to WWII, they were quite successful in many cases and seldom led to wider conflict.
More than the atom bomb (yet, I fear someday we may hear quite a bit more about that if we exist to hear), the war put to bed the notion of territorial expansion as a reasonable national posture.
Wars that emerged from boundaries drawn up at the end of WWII I do not count as wars of territorial expansion, but generally civil wars or wars of repatriation.
