
#447: On Grand Strategy
The Art of Manliness
What Are the Grand Strategies of the Spartans?
In ancient Greece, there weren't a lot of like text about strategy like we have today. So what are some of the same famous strategists who made explicit these implicit ideas that Octavian was using that Xerxes knew or was using or not using? When did that start happening? Well, I think the starting point for writing about this is Thucydides and his great history of the Peloponnesian War. This is the war between the Athenians and the Spartans, which breaks out in the late 430s BC.
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