Dear Dark General
Oklahoma Summer, 2014
Dear Dark General:
Your sudden appearance and then an even slower disappearance suggests that perhaps the many has-been scholars that serve you are beyond the simple martini.
Three short slogans with a bit of information attached:
Suggestion One:
Suggestion Two:Achaemenid Imperial Army The Achaemenian/Achaemenid army is well known through descriptions by Herodotus, Xenophon, and Arrian as well as by illustrations on Persepolitan and Greco-Persian monuments. Of particular importance for the topic are the Greek representations of Persian warriors and the evidence of the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus from Sidon The Persians whom Cyrus united did not possess a professional army: as in days of old, the "people" of a region was represented by its backbone, the "military force," so the two words were used synonymously in one Old Persian term, k gra (cognate with Lithuaniank grias/k gris "war, army," Gothic harjis "army," and German Heer "army," , a sense still retained in the New Persian term kas-o k gr "relatives and supporters."Ancient Persia: Miitary History
Wars, battles, weapons, and warfare history of the ancient Persians
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/achaemenid_army.htm
26. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.
The Art of War
By Sun Tzu
Suggestion Three:
31. Hence it is not enough to put one's trust in the tethering of horses, and the burying of chariot wheels in the ground
The Art of War
By Sun Tzu
Nor should you truth the enemy when the enemy has had two thousands years to fully understand your tactics. With you, the Yellow Emperor; with him; the Game Over!
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