PsionicsNOTMagic wrote:
Vass wrote:
Clausewitz, Frontinus, JFC Fuller, Guderian, hay throw in Machiavelli too for a laugh. There's fucktons of others, it just depends on what you're after. Most older tactical theory has decreased in relevance with advances in weapons and assorted other crap.
Oi, sorry. I forgot to say that anything Roman - just before guns became the norm. Yeah, I'm looking for ancient history stuff. Sorry, but I prefer learning about that stuff. I'd just like to see, mostly, how well Western strategists would do against Chinese.
Thanks for the names. I'll look those up more as soon as I can.
This is a bit outside my area of research, but I spent a bit of time discussing this with my supervisor some years back, and he is one the the premiere academics for the history/prehistory of east and southeast asia.
To whit:
During the warring states period, any of the armies from any single one of the warring states, would whip the everloving shit out of the entire Roman Empire. The army of Qin Shi Huang Di (I think that's how it's spelled) would have probably been able to conquer the entirety of Europe, if he'd been so inclined.
Fun fact: The tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di is the largest in existence, and is very, very slowly being uncovered. It's most famous for the terracotta army, but personally I think the map room is far more interesting, it has a massive map of China carved into the floor, with cities represented by perfect scale models, rivers and seas made of flowing mercury, and a map of the sky with pearls for each star.
However, I don't really have any references to back this up.