Weaker enemies, by design, do not threaten stronger powers existentially; ‘proportionality’ means stalemate. From the Punic Wars (264–146 b.c.) and the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) to the ...

The advance of the Carthaginian general Hannibal on Rome during the Second Punic War caused ... but it was destroyed in 146 B.C. at the end of the Third Punic War, which Rome instigated for ...