08-17-2007, 06:17 AM
Quote:By this logic the Spartans should never have agreed to the accord described aboveThey didn't have a choice ! Leadership among Greek city states in Alliance was always fraught with difficuly - we hear of leadership/pride of place being alternated on a daily basis because Allies could not agree. As Xenophon tells us, leadership depended on whose territory the Allies were in, obviously because that state was most threatened.
Surely you won't denigrate Xenphon as a source, merely to promote your own tactical theory? :o
Quote:I think you sell the Spartans short tactically- but most do
Hardly !! I thought it was me who was arguing for sophisticated Spartan tactics/drill/ manouever on the Battlefield, and you saying that the Spartans could barely move from open order to close order??
P You seem to have changed your ground !
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
