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Prolonged Warfare

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Second Punic War of the Italian Peninsula

Hannibal's invasion in the second punic war of the italian peninsula what would it be that made that a ten year affair? Well, bu you know, i mean, it was more than it was the punic war. It was two, 18 to two on it was 17, 18 years. The biggest thing it sinomanlege. They took over ten, ten thousand prisoners at lake tresemane. And if that wasn't enough, and then finally, the the capstone, was that tragedy where you have these incomfetente very and pal paul sand two, 16 were at the battle of cana and outnumbered a carthaginian force.

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