Then the Marines learn Latin, and teach the Romans about democracy..marry their women..
The Romans learned all they needed to know about democracy from the Greeks. That’s why they created a Republic.
And, at different times, Romans were terrified by elephants, triremes, chariots and other ancient nasties. They adapted, adopted, improvised and conquered.
You and I agree. The Marines avoid pitched battles (too fuel wasteful). They laager up in a region that is defensible by modern arms, and go into the tool making and troop recruiting business. The Romans best chance is to provoke them into big battles, where the Marines run out of fuel like the panzers in the Battle of the Bulge.
Instead, the Marines play God like the Americans after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let the world wonder how many dozens more of those bombs we had ready to destroy any city at one blow. The Marines do some splashy demo runs to demonstrate their awesome power, while hiding its weaknesses, such as it’s shortages of fuel, ordnance etc.
But if the could “buy” ten years as top dogs in some nice redoubt, they would be making crude guns and cannons and gunpowder.
Why would people from a republic teach democracy to a republic?
Are you saying we would show them how to destroy their republic via the ballot referendum like we have? /S