It was not only cunning and hardihood, but this perfect march and bivouac discipline that caused U.N. aircraft to fly over the CCF hundreds of times without ever once seeing anything suspicious. Even aerial photography revealed nothing. It was a feat that Xenophon’s hoplites, marching back from Persia to the sea, could have performed. Julius Caesar’s hard legions could have done it, and more—the Roman manuals stated that the usual day’s march for a legion was twenty miles, to be covered in five hours. It is extremely doubtful if any modern Western army, bred to wheels, could have matched it.
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