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#487: Leadership Lessons From the 3 Greatest Ancient Commanders

The Art of Manliness

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The Roman Empire and Hannibal Verse

Alexander was successful in the short term with his military. But after he died, that thing just collapsed because he didn't really spend time building infrastructure for the newly acquired territory. And so this is a great example of Alexander. He needed to build up a ruling group that was going to be loyal to him. Instead, he dies just before his 33rd birthday when asked who he wanted to leave his empire to. The Romans are somewhat similar. They say, yeah, well, we've lost really great battles, but we still have all our allies in central Italy. So Hannibal's not good at breaking these bonds that hold into the Roman alliance. To do it, he would have had to

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