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Because of the ability to see the big picture of a very different period and a very different time. It's that remove that helps us avoid the trap of thinking that the future

will be like the recent past. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind

the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields.

Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Jason Fields. Matthew Galt is listening in, but you won't hear him today. A war between the world's greatest democracy and a rigid ruthless society raged for decades. States that had nothing to do with the conflict were made to choose sides. Cities were burned to the ground, every man and boy executed. And one man chronicled at all, the acidities of Athens.

His story of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta is one of the earliest and

greatest works of history.

The book is considered so important, 2,400 years later, it's still taught at military academies.

Joining us today to talk about it is Dr. Cliff Rogers of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

He's joining us in his capacity as a private citizen. He's not speaking on behalf of the US government,

we just want to make that clear.

Dr. Rogers, thank you so much for joining us.

My pleasure to be here.

Do you mind starting at the beginning?

I think a lot of people aren't going to know who Thucydides was and what his work is all about.

Do you mind just sort of briefly describing it?

Not at all.

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