@UncleIroh @YoMomz

I disbelieve in history so much after seeing people watch the news and believe it that

As far as I am concerned Hitler, Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy might not have even existed but been characters in a old fiction soap opera called the news and Joe Biden and Donald Trump might not exist to this day but be characters in a script for the current fiction soap opera called the news

@shortstories @UncleIroh - Official history should always be looked at with a critical eye (and critical thinking), no doubt. Ancient narratives change... For example, Herodotus claims Persia had a million men at Thermopylae. And for epochs, that number was taken at face value.

Then in the mid-20th century, a historian did the math, based on Prussian military doctrine (a very meticulous people 😉), and found that such an army's marching column would stretch for hundreds of miles. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@shortstories @UncleIroh - So a grain of salt is always called for.

But without history, there is nothing. So, I see wisdom to be gained in the field. Though I don't read anything from the last 20yrs. 🍻

@YoMomz @UncleIroh

1000 men in rows times 1000 men in columns gives you 1 million men

( technicly my units are not right, men times men gives you square men but you know what I mean I hope )

Less than one square mile

If they have to go through a narrow pass then you can still fit most of them in one square mile outside the narrow pass waiting in turn to enter it

That gives 25 square feet or 5 feet by 5 feet per person

5000 feet by 5000 feet fits 1000 people by 1000 people

@shortstories - It would be silly of me to dispute the math there... 🤔 But I would be remiss if I failed to point out: no army marches like that - in a big square.

And the stakes in war, are often everything. So if no one does it, I have to think there must be a good reason why - probably related to command and control.