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How A Democracy Fights

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Mystique of a Good Commander

The Klaus Witzians rely on a population of over 200,000 people who farm for them. And they have this idea that they're invincible. They don't even have walls around their city. So when he took that huge army in 370 in the winter no less, 70,000 people, he went right into it smart. He didn't quite get into the city but he just was catastrophic psychologically.

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