Quote Originally Posted by Slug For A Butt
I have to take issue with this.
Are modern day Generals better because they have more time to make decisions while sat in their bunkers a million miles from the action?
Are modern day Generals better because they can play a strategic game that involves no risk to their own soldiers because they have longer range missiles and strategic long range bombers?
Are modern day Generals just armchair Generals that would not dare to step into the shoes of Generals of antiquity such as Alexander, Aëtius and Caesar? Let alone make instant, self life threatening battle winning decisions like them?
I see Generals of antiquity as real Generals and modern day Generals as Politician-Generals.
Well, I never said anything about modern day generals. In fact the only historical period I find less interesting than antiquity must be the 20th century. I don't know why, but I've just never been fashinated by half-naked men wielding two foot swords made out of bronze running around in their sandals in a largely uninhabitated world only to be remembered as the greatest commanders of all time. What I particulary dislike is the fact the numbers in antique battles are always exaggerated.
No, I don't know. I just have some kind of general disliking for anything that took place before the invention of chainmail (before that all warriors looked basically silly).