Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast.

I'm with the entire team today.

So there's Murray Dom and there's Mark DeSantis, Lindsay Powell, Mike Cole, and Mark McCaffrey,

and of course everything is being recorded by our technical guru

and Ms. Wallace. And my name is Jasperortez and the editor of ancient warfare magazine.

Thank you for joining us and all that. And today we are going to talk about fighting generals,

not just generals who are on the battlefield commanding their troops troops but who actually take to the front line

and and show their men how to fight and possibly die and I'm sure there's a there's a lot of

thoughts about that in the team so I'm just going to we have a few questions but I'll just

throw those in later if the conversation ever stalls which I think is very unlikely

I'm just going to give it to Mike because he said he had some those in later if the conversation ever stalls, which I think is very unlikely.

I'm just going to give it to Mike because he said he had something to say and we'll see everybody else can politely jump in when they feel like.

When I wrote Legion versus Phalanx, one of the things, and of course I want to

under-emphasize that my thinking has evolved a lot since then. I think one of the things, and of course I want to under emphasize that my thinking has evolved a lot since then.

I think one of the things, unfortunate things about being an historian is you put things in words,

and then you continue to study and learn, and you change your mind, and your book is still out there with those things in words.

So what are you going to do?

One of the things I posited there is that I saw Hellenistic generals. Now, obviously,

the most famous of these being Alexander the Great, right, operating as tactical units on the

battlefield. We see Philip V doing this. We see Antiochus the Great doing this. We see Pyrrhus doing

this in the battles that I examined for that book.

And while we certainly see Roman consuls doing something similar, I mean, look, we can't

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