Hoplight Warfare - The Only Reason Why the Spartans Are Dangerous

Von weest says everything we know about hoplight warfare comes from a later period than this, 50, 75 years afterwards. The armies we're talking about here are more rustic, even than the ones you know from classical greece, as it's called. This is still archaic greece to him. He says, the only reason that the spartans are considered dangerous at all is cause they're the only greek city state that prepares for war at all.