2. how might you approach military history in a more constructive manner?

See the explanation below.

Explanation:

According to me, if we use Military history to learn about leadership and study the commander's mind then it will be the more constructive approach towards the subject. We can keep our focus on military affairs which have large impact on our society.

Military history as a discipline record the armed conflict in the history of humanity and tries to assess it's impact over economies, societies, culture, etc. which in result lead to changes or development in local and international affairs. It also help us to study about military strategy adopted by each side and help in assessing how these tactics and technologies have changed with time, for example, it tries to explain that how warfare led to the development of weapon and with time how emerging technologies have shaped these weapons.

the answer is c my brotha. c.   formed an alliance with the soviet union.

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.