Answer:
Were mostly similar, but they had different strategies to maintain them
Explanation:
The land-based empires as the Russian and Qing states were large and had wealth, the problem with the maritime European empires was that they began to grow exponentially, soon their armies were modernized and created conflicts with said empires, the Russian empire modernized on time, seeing its European neighbors growing and gaining power, but the Qing empire failed to see what was coming, and tried to act when it was too late.
This is in fact not true, federal spending on defense in the late 1900s specifically the 1990s was in a decline from previous years when spending on the Cold War was very high. However, in the early 2000s defense spending increased dramatically with the introduction of the War on Terror and also the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A. Between Russia and Britain and the Shah of Persia
Yes, it is possible! If you would like more of an explanation I'll be happy to explain! Hope this helps! :) :D
