Humanity labored for millennia in ignorance of the reality of war, and then the Great War happened, poets realized the lie of "Dulce et decorum est," and now the Truth of History can be laid bare before the god of Trauma.
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It seems to me that the maintenance of the so-called epikrateia for a couple centuries is good evidence that Carthaginians had decent strategic and tactical thinking. The war with Rome being as much a surprise for them as the Romans, I don't know what else they could have done?
So obviously, I've got that article arguing that Carthaginian strategic thinking was, on the whole, reasonable and prudent. Which I think is true. On the flip side, Carthaginian generals seem to me - Hannibal excepted - to bat below replacement pretty consistently.
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Mmm, perhaps. Though I view Hannibal as a rather poor strategist, though good tactician. But I think it's difficult to universally declare them poor considering how long Carthage maintained a relatively large hegemony if not empire.
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That's fair. Perhaps a poor choice of example. At the very least, Carthage's military capacity seems to me to have outstripped the abilities of any Greek-speaking state in antiquity.
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