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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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.
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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It just seems to me that Carthage was the only state to come close to having the institutional strength in resource mobilization to hold off the Romans, and more often than not it is one form of leadership failure or another that holds them back from doing that.
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They certainly did have the ability to mobilize a considerable amount of power. Though, I don't think their failure in the wars against Rome can be entirely laid on leadership failures. What about the strengths of the Romans? Maybe I'm being too pedantic for Twitter
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