They were as good as any other....myth!

[Old Husker]

Yes, guilty as charged with regard to the aforementioned book. I did indeed expect considerable flack on many of the conclusions presented therein, which I consider a good thing. The concept was to push data as far as possible and not hold back for fear of being proven wrong. This meant that I was not only going to violate some long-held opinions, but also commit a fair number of errors (some perhaps gross) due to my ignorance of key data that would have moved my projections in a different direction. No matter how much you research, there's always something important that someone else knows and you don't. I therefore hoped that those with the proper knowledge and passion would begin correcting me so that we could all get a better idea about what was really taking place on ancient battlefields. Thus, please consider my book a collection of theories rather than laws, a place to start a discussion rather than seek resolution. In short, it's no more than a target for others to shoot at, with each hit helping me and others by teaching something important about Greek warfare. I will try to contribute as much as I can to the discussions on RAT (and on Ancient Warfare's site) and sincerely wish that I had had access to this wonderful kind of networked group-intelligence a decade or so ago when I began writing.