Spartan mores considered by whom? Athenian aristocrats who wish they too could ignore their political underclass, or Plutarch writing with rose-tinted glasses 300 years thick? It's important to remember that the supposedly equal, ideal, Lycurgean society probably never existed.
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Sparta isn't even that good at fighting - the one thing they do. They are good enough at *battle* - but battle is not war. The very system which produces Spartans ensures that Spartans are too inflexible and too much jerks to actually achieve their strategic aims.
Unless of course, Spartan strategic aims are defined down to the minimum of "continue to be able to brutalize the helots" in which case they manage it for just under 300 years (668-371 BC). That's not even a particularly good record.