The End of Spanish Imperialism

The church pushes against kind of a lot of modernizing ideas in spain. And one of those things is that spain fails to develop a modern military system. They never do like what france does, where you you start this idea of a nation under arms and of a modern, professional style of the military. But ya, the ultimate collapse of spanish imperialism really comes in 18 98, when the united states goes to war with spain for no reason really, and takes over cuba.