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Cæsar
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Discretion and Conditions Over Raw Courage, Restore the Footman to Break the Horseman, Combined Arms Over Single-Arm Dominance
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Of war there was much; of art in war there was little – as we understand it, none – until Gustavus Adolphus again infused method into what others had done with no method at all. Strategy had rarely shown itself since th…
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"Of war there was much; of art in war there was little – as we understand it, none – until Gustavus Adolphus again infused method into what others had done with no method at all. Strategy had rarely shown itself since the days of Cæsar; tactics was whatever suited each nation or tribe, and never rose to the rank of grand-tactics."
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Themes
Discretion and Conditions Over Raw CourageRestore the Footman to Break the HorsemanCombined Arms Over Single-Arm DominanceDiscipline Over Feudal LoyaltyMethod Where Others Had NoneMercenary Loyalty Expires With PayBarbarian Replacement Destroys InstitutionsDefensive Tools Signal DeclineCavalry Supremacy as Civilizational Trap