The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure.It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of their rivals, and they will use force if they believe it will bring them strategic advantage.
