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>the author does not really discuss here is the discipline of troops. While some armies were highly disciplined and would not be deterred by a hail of arrows

Case in point the Spartan army led by Leonidas. One of the soldiers apparently really said that if the Persians will rain fire arrows on them, they will fight in the shade.

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The author has a VERY dim view of Sparta, and of the people who worship Sparta and of the quality of information the legend of Sparta is based upon (second hand roman information, from Romans, at a time where Sparta had become a sort of theme park for bored senators).

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/19/collections-this-isnt-sparta-r...

Just talking about the last stand of Leonidas and the 300 (+7000 thebans etc). Of course, a society driven purely by millitaristic macho men will implode. I have read about this a bit before (Not from this author)

I do wonder how all these Alt-right Alpha bros, who are into the Spartans, feel about the Spartan predilection for pederasty.

Or the fact that the Spartans were solely defeated by the sacred band of thebes, an army of gay men.

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