They developed superior sea power to augment and transport their armies to points of conflict throughout the five decades of war..
yes they did
Persian War.
Xerxes I.
Herodotus
499 BCE
Persia lost.
NO! The Persian war was ancient Greece vs the Persians USA didnt even exist then.
The Persian War
The outcome set a limit to Persian expansion to the west.
The Persian invasion of peninsular Greece 480-479 BCE.
Historians today think the 1st Persian war started around 490 BC.
Contrast the results of the Persian and Peloponnesian war with regards to Athens Greece