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.”...
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