keegan and claude's seminal way to lose modern battles never did it for me.

alexander, genghis and allah's sword/walid in that order are the three with untouched records and just silly tactics given what it was like to supply a viable army when you're in fucking india and it's been just crushing everything outnumbered while arguably the greatest, certainly most generative mind in history was his west point. i think years with aristotle's student and then peer has to be the kind of thing that allows one to not take a pacific island or conquer gaul, but just fuck shit up until you're past where the world was supposed to have ended. then die younger than i am. caesar cried at his grave for a reason.

genghis never lost, and simply was like ali's best days in terms of just being so fucking creative and making the rest of the armed world look painfully slow and then terrified when fast-cavalry with a penchant for creating a sense of invincibility and fear. but he was just a jet vs.prop, when he died there wasn't much but competent horsemen without thought to controlling what was conquered and shit fell apart fast.

and islam wouldn't exist if that prophet didn't have a brilliant general that kept winning against odds until the momentum snowballed into turning huge amounts of people and land to change to a completely unthinkable religion had they been asked what the decade would mean to them. basically, no sword of god, the prophet's a footnote-unfortunately, we'll never have the kind of record the other two left. alexander's walsh, this guy's going to give us what early belicheck would have-greatness and a bunch of wtf's and garbled, untranslatable speech.