Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Podcast.

My name is Jasper Ortiz.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And with me today are Murray Dom, the assistant editor, Mark DeSantis, Mark McCaffrey, and Lindsay Powell.

Today we're discussing Ancient Warfare warfare issue 105, which is all about

generals and commanders. As I said in the editorial, it's kind of a strange theme because in a way,

it's a topic we discuss every single time, if only because that is the category of people

that our sources, sort of the same social strata that

our sources come from or that they would like to be or that they sometimes were and so we

get their point of view all the time so we tried to focus on how do you get the right person how

how does he know what to do and and how is he appointed to his position?

And we didn't get very many questions, but one question that we did get sent in,

and the question was, to what degree is nepotism a factor in assigning commanders to their role?

We briefly discussed that before we started, and we immediately got to the question,

what do you mean by nepotism?

Because you could, you know, could say anyone in the family is automatically nepotism,

whether they're capable or not, or if we're just thinking of somebody who's been assigned above his station, what he's capable of.

It's Carlos Medina.

Thank you, Carlos.

It was a good one.

I'm sure we can actually probably fill the whole episode with this if we get started, but who would like to start?

The interesting thing about nepotism is that idea of what is nepotism.

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