Unlike the indirect style of Persian warfare, the Greeks sought direct frontal engagements in which they attempted to engage and annihilate the enemy in a single, decisive battle. Some military historians have pointed to these basic differences between the Persians and the Greeks as the beginnings of distinctive traditions of Eastern and Western styles of warfare, respectively.3 The goal of the Eastern style of warfare is to use maneuver and deception to, as the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu put it, “win without fighting.”4 By contrast, the Western style seeks to directly engage the
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