Warrior Culture Quotes
The Boer farmers of South Africa invented commando tactics where they would surprise the British, hit and run. It was very effective. Although they could not win the war that way, the prolonged the battle against an overwhelmingly superior force setting an example of asymmetric warfare that lasted hundreds of years. The Sudanese to whom the General referred were the Islamic religious insurgents whom he had soundly defeated the year before in the Sudan. With their religious fervor they attacked en mass and although very courageous were not very effective.
No enemy had ever gotten close to Sparta. . See {632265} for a related quotation.
Infanticide, especially of female newborns, was generally commonplace as it is in India and China at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium. The immortality of those who die in battle, which is so prevalent among Muslims regarding jihad was an ancient Jewish concept. This is surprising to most modern people, Jewish and otherwise.
The Mohawk, as well as the other Iroquois nations had several interesting democratic elements to their governance system some of which Benjamin Franklin tried to introduce into Pennsylvania and nationally. Particularly interesting is the European perspective of the minister who describes the de facto requirement for a type of plebiscite ratification in derogatory terms referring to the people as “the mob”. Some have argued that at the time the most democratic nation on earth was the Iroquois nation.
