I'm not sure what the goal was here, that's not what I'm saying.
Assuming that you had perhaps not contemplated this observation by way of analogy I shared my suspicion that an expert on Cyrus the Great might be very annoyed about the way he was discussed.
The problem, of course, is that such analogies are extremely difficult to make as subjects such as M/NS/CS very much have right and wrong answers in the way that history tends not to.