By Williamson Murray
Profitable concepts is an engaging new research of the main elements that experience contributed to the improvement and execution of profitable recommendations all through background. With a group of best historians, Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich learn how, and to what influence states, participants and army corporations have stumbled on an answer to complicated and likely insoluble strategic difficulties to arrive good fortune. Bringing jointly grand, political and army process, the ebook positive aspects 13 essays which each and every explores a different case or point of technique. the point of interest levels from participants corresponding to Themistocles, Bismarck and Roosevelt to organisations and bureaucratic responses. no matter if discussing grand method in peacetime or that of struggle or politics, those case stories are unified by way of their universal target of picking out in each one case the main elements that contributed to good fortune in addition to delivering insights necessary to any figuring out of the strategic demanding situations of the longer term.
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Kithairon, the Greeks crushed the Persians, killed Mardonius, and watched the survivors scatter to the north. Themistocles apparently did not take part in the landbattle, but was still at sea pursuing enemy vessels along the coast of Asia Minor – or, more likely, had suffered some sort of falling out with the Greek high command tired of his constant boasting. After the storm and losses at Artemisium and the subsequent naval defeat at Salamis, Xerxes may have lost over 900 triremes. Now, with Mardonius’ annihilation in Boeotia, perhaps as many as a quarter-million Persian imperial infantry and sailors had perished or were scattered in Greece in little over a year.
That Athenian hoplites had won without the crack troops of Sparta made the victory all the more reassuring. 3 Yet despite the contemporary Athenian ebullition, Marathon under closer examination soon proved not quite the final victory it had appeared. A worried young Themistocles, almost alone among Athenian leaders, seems to have drawn quite different lessons from Marathon. He saw no grand Athenian strategy involved in the infantry victory, in which Persian negligence played an unappreciated role.
For the “Marathon men,” cf. Aristophanes, Clouds, 986. 3–4. Most generals tried to best use the resources their societies put at their disposal; Themistocles, in contrast, insured that his society would have the wisdom and capability to put the right resources at his disposal. 20 Victor Davis Hanson The Greeks had been reactive, given limited options, and apparently lucky that the Persians unwisely fought when and how they did. Despite the Greek victory and the high enemy losses, as much as threefourths of the defeated invaders, or more, had simply sailed away unscathed.