A War Like No Other Quotes

“human character is unchanging and thus its conduct in calamitous times is always predictable.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

“tragedy, comedy, and the Parthenon were not so much expressions of native genius as reflections of lots of money.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

“Any infectious disease that achieves about a 30 percent lethality rate among a pristine population probably provides immunity”
― Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

“The great American contribution to the Red Army was not just food stocks and strategic materials but nearly four hundred thousand heavy transport trucks, which eventually allowed Stalin a mobility and rapidity lacking among his Nazi enemies on the eastern front.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

“army, which was hardly designed to fight imperial German divisions in the trenches of Europe, the Athenian phalanx was never intended to face anything like Spartan hoplites, but was perfectly capable as a seaborne force for putting down recalcitrant tributary allies. In addition, there were reserves of imperial manpower far from Attica that were safe from Spartan ground intrusions—what King Archidamus worried about as the “plenty of the other land” out of his army’s reach.50”
― Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War