Heed this warning!-----Victor Davis Hanson on the Illusion of Invincibility - American Thinker

Victor Davis Hanson on the Illusion of Invincibility - American Thinker - Terry Scambray

• The warning comes in the form of a graphic depiction of the hideousness of war and the terrifying state of those who suffer ignominious defeat.
• However different the four societies described in the book were, be they Thebans, Carthaginians, Byzantines, or Aztecs, each was blinded by the illusion of invincibility. 
•  Hanson shows that such an illusion is so persistent that even as the conquered were being slaughtered, they continued to think: “It cannot happen here.”...