Curious indeed.
Have you never heard of the Janissaries? A better description of this fighting group, feared for generations, I can not imagine: slave-warriors.
This ding-dong never heard of Carthage? The Muslim conquests?
FR sure is educational.
Cultures that have made soldiers of slaves ultimately do fail, but the original statement is preposterous on its face.
Cultures that have made soldiers of slaves ultimately do fail, but the original statement is preposterous on its face.
But, ultimately, all cultures fail. Whether they had slaves, or slave-soldiers, or not. We will be no exception. If our vices, failings, and defeats do not destroy us, our virtues, successes, and victories will. Cultures and civilizations are no more immortal than individuals are.