02-20-2007, 06:44 AM
Yeah, I suppose I should ease up a little.
But she should have known better. I guess hindsight vision is 20 20, but even I know better than to send rabble head on at a Roman Legion like that! She should have had some degree of appraisal for her own troops and the troops of her enemy.
If one looks at the example of T.E. Lawrence one could see that perhaps she could have been more effective. Lawrence realized that with the makeup and psychology of his troops he could not afford to fight pitched battles against the Turks. He wrote in Seven Pillars;
" In Turkey things were scarce and precious, men less esteemed than equipment. Our cue was to destroy, not the Turks army, but his minerals. The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun or charge of high explosive, was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. In the Arab Army at the moment we were chary both of materials and of men. Governments saw men only in mass; but our men, being irregulars, were not formations, but individuals. An individual death, like a pebble dropped in water, might make but a brief hole; yet rings of sorrow widened out therefrom. We could not afford casualties"
IMHO Lawrence is one of the best leaders ever, managing to lead such a bedraggled group to victory. But yeah, the above passage is a good example of how an appraisal of the combatants can prevent crushing defeats such as Boudicca's.
Athena
But she should have known better. I guess hindsight vision is 20 20, but even I know better than to send rabble head on at a Roman Legion like that! She should have had some degree of appraisal for her own troops and the troops of her enemy.
If one looks at the example of T.E. Lawrence one could see that perhaps she could have been more effective. Lawrence realized that with the makeup and psychology of his troops he could not afford to fight pitched battles against the Turks. He wrote in Seven Pillars;
" In Turkey things were scarce and precious, men less esteemed than equipment. Our cue was to destroy, not the Turks army, but his minerals. The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun or charge of high explosive, was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. In the Arab Army at the moment we were chary both of materials and of men. Governments saw men only in mass; but our men, being irregulars, were not formations, but individuals. An individual death, like a pebble dropped in water, might make but a brief hole; yet rings of sorrow widened out therefrom. We could not afford casualties"
IMHO Lawrence is one of the best leaders ever, managing to lead such a bedraggled group to victory. But yeah, the above passage is a good example of how an appraisal of the combatants can prevent crushing defeats such as Boudicca's.
Athena
Marat Marat its all in vain
You studied the body and probed the brain
In vain you spent your energies
for how can Marat cure his own disease
Athena Kendall
You studied the body and probed the brain
In vain you spent your energies
for how can Marat cure his own disease
Athena Kendall
