We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/when_athens_per.html Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Denizen Commentary - Kat] Just a quick drive by today...I'm reading Victor Davis Hanson's "A War Like No Other". I'll give a review later if the Armorer hasn't done so in the past. "A War Like No Other" is a book about the Peloponnesian War between Athen's and Sparta. At the end of the Third Peloponnesian War, democratic Athens was defeated by oligarchic, militaristic Sparta, a city state that was smaller in land, people, money and arms. Reflecting multiple discussions here, Hanson wrote: Second, Pericles gambled that the Athenians - a people that had once marched out to Marathon to... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/when_athens_per.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/when_athens_per.html Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:52:08 -0600