Mardonius

The man was a control freak.

All the great commanders are really mini psychologists.

They can almost read the mind of their opponent.

This is Jiana Reames, professor of Macedonian History.

But, you know, there's a lot of things it's, it's harder to tell and, and it starts with him.

Uh, there was a book written by John Keegan, uh, some years back, uh, called The Mask of Command, and I've got it somewhere in my books here.

Uh, and in it, he talked about these really good commanders wearing a mask of command.

So they are never presenting themselves to you.