I can work with that but it is a break from the flow the book was taking, Da:2 was a vision with 4 parts, part one was covered in detail and names were supplied for the gold and silver. Chapter 4,5,6 I believe. A break in chapter 7 to describe the metal kingdoms in a different form, one that has no meaning for Daniel but one every reader of Revelation would instantly recognize and that connection is a correct one. Da:8 and 9 cover the brass kingdom and that is given in prophecy. The short but not very convincing path that covers the cross and that means it is tied to the completion of the bruise to the heel from Ge:3:15. The metal statue has a 4th kingdom that is just introduced in the last few verses of Da:8. The brass has a long pause in it at the end of the verses given and when her 'end' comes. Rome was the nation the verses fit in the Bible and in that time there was something called 'the time of the Gentiles' was started by Rome. The end of that period that was part of the De:4:30 prophecy and that is still in the future unless we were in the last 3 1/2 years. All of the iron/clay verses from Daniel are meant to fit into the 5th and 6th trumps of Revelation as well as the passages that apply to what goes on in those 42 months that Satan is loose and the last 42 months that Gentiles rule over Jerusalem (meaning no physical Temple as we use the same one Daniel used while in exile in Babylon, the prayer in De:4 is the same one that Christians are given in the NT as far as the opening part goes, phase II varies from person to person, etc.

Back to Daniel 10, that same thing I just fell prey to actually separated the bruise to the heel from the bruise to the head and that is what all of Da:11 is about and it meshes with Revelation alone. The gold, silver and brass are all in the first 6 of 8 kings in all. That's about 4 long threads there alone.