Dan Carlin
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What you're about to hear is part four of a multi-part series on Alexander the Great, a subject I've talked about since the very first Hardcore History show, and I've finally tried to get the definitive version down.
And that would, of course, include a long conversation about his father, the military his father built, the connection between the two.
And so there's quite a bit of backstory, which is why we're on part four now.
If you've heard the other parts and are ready to get started, we'll get right to it.
If you've missed parts one through three and you want to know what happened to get to this point, well, check them out.
And if you haven't heard those and don't care at all, well, here we go.
Part four of Mania for Subjugation.
I was thinking the other day about when the role of army commander, war leader, general, whatever we want to refer to it as, when that started.
What was the first one of them?
And I guess we would have to sort of lay down some parameters of what we were talking about.
But in the way I'm framing it in my head, I got to think Neanderthals had war leaders, right?
And you think about the relationship when the military force that one of these people is commanding is small.
I mean, I think of these Apache leaders like Mangus Colorados or Cuchillo Negro or Pizago Cabazon.
These guys would have known all their warriors.
And part of the reason they are who they are is because there's this bond between them and trust and a whole bunch of other things.
Easy to understand the relationship when it's amongst a small group like that where everyone knows one another.
But as armies get larger...
you know, it's not hard to see that that might be more difficult to maintain that relationship when you have 60,000 troops or something.
I mean, and if you're Dwight Eisenhower commanding the Allied forces in Europe in the, you know, after D-Day, I mean, hard to have a personal relationship with the troops, even when you meet with them, you know, when you have these photo opportunities and they trust you to win battles for them and keep them safe and all these kinds of things.
I mean, so there's one level of
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