[AlbionGirl]

Thanks. I really like military history, though I miss a lot when I read it, because I'm female and lack a lot of basic info. Though that was never a problem for Margaret Thatcher.

I think that I read about his truce in Carnage and Culture, by Victor Davis Hanson. I think that I also read in C&C that in very early warfare the soldiers could get together and depose a general, if he was not doing his job. When I read of this, all I could think of was Robert MacNamara. I don't know how any person could have the heart to write the book he wrote, so many years and so, so many deaths after the fact. To pierce the hearts of those family members who were left behind.

If it would have been up to me, I would have given him 30 days worth of food, a good knife and I would have exiled him to Borneo or some other country where they're reputed to still have head-hunters.

[redgolum]

Warfare has gone through many phases. We are currently in the “high tech” phase, much like the medieval period.

Which means the generals (or the nobles) make decisions in a vacuum more often than not.