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This idea, the 'universal warrior' is nonsense. Heck, the Macedonian phalangite wouldn't have fit in a Roman legion (Plb. 18.28ff) and vice versa. A Spartan wouldn't have been properly drilled to fight in either! War is not constant, and neither are combatants.https://twitter.com/SPressfield/status/1346185128742014976 …
And also, while we're here, the United States doesn't have warriors. Rome didn't have warriors. Alexander didn't have warriors.
They had (or in the USA's case, still have) 
soldiers
. There is a difference, those words are not synonyms.
But to be clear, just as there is no universal warrior, there is no universal soldier either. War, war does in fact change.
@Roelkonijn has some good Pressfield debunking (re Sparta)
I bet!
Of course I have my own takedown of le mirage spartiate (https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ …) though I think @Roelkonijn and I differ in how willing we are to follow Plutarch; I adopt a 'taking him at his word' approach here to let me meet le mirage on its 'home turf' as it were.
But the ethos or mentality of Romans and Macedonians wasn't the same! J.E. Lendon wrote a whole book on this (Soldiers and Ghosts); it's very good!
“Caesar’s legions, or Alexander’s phalanx or the Spartans” he mentions three completely different fighting systems. Three totally different societies and ways of thinking spanning roughly 400 years... I don’t get his thinking at all.
Ahh your assumption that he is, in fact, thinking at all.
His Warrior Ethos book is a compilation of every bad Spartan take out there. Popular in military education unfortunately.
Yeah, I've been told Gates of Fire is on various officer-training reading lists and it drives me more than a little bit nuts.
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