This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

I love this quote.

As an ancient historian, my goals are to share the enthusiasm for and

fascination with antiquity that I feel and to show some of the connections between that world

and our own. Those words are for my guest today, Professor Greg Aldrette. He is a professor

of humanistic studies and history at the University

of Wisconsin Green Bay. He earned his BA from Princeton and his master's degree in PhD in ancient

history from the University of Michigan. Bottom line, Greg has studied ancient history, including a lot of warfare, a lot more than any of us.

And that makes him a really fascinating guy to learn from, a terribly interesting guy to pull insights from.

I'm so fortunate on this podcast to bring diversity, diversity of thinking, diversity of research,

diversity of interests, all these brilliant minds, and I get to go to school and stay in school

for the rest of my life. So damn awesome. Well, you get to do the same thing, too, as long as you keep listening.

Now, Greg has got a wide background, as I've alluded to, but today I'm going to stick in a

particular territory. History's great military blunders and the lessons they teach.

Greg has circled the globe to explore those pivotal incidents of catastrophic failure

in battle. And he looks at how these errors change the course of human history. It's conversations

with guys like Greg where you just pause and realize humanity could have unfolded differently,

if not for this battle or that one.

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