In ancient China, the perennial challenges of ruling a very large territory , keeping cohesion and unity were already present and due to technological limitations, they were even bigger than they are today. In the kingdoms of ancient China, the feudal local lords, rich and powerful, had the real political power despite any sworn loyalty to the kings. The Zhou kings were kings but they did not control the feudal lords effectively, they were politically weak.
The Soviet Union felt the need to spend more of its resources on its military than their American counterparts because they needed to maintain more control.
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The Soviet Union was a repressive dictatorship which meant that they needed to use the military to maintain control in the country and in other Communist states.
The U.S. was democratic and did not need as much military commitment and so the Soviets used more resources.
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The Whig Party was in favor of the federal government (and preferred they be in control) as opposed to the Democratic Party, favoring the state government. Additionally, the Whig Party tended to be more industry driven; the Democratic Party favored agriculture.
