and also carthage seemed to have no institutional army, unlike the romans, who had something resembling an institution that was able to absorb enormous losses and, after a lot of ridiculous behavior, learn new things. carthage had hannibal, which has no contingency.
and yeah, they disrupted one land war by crossing the sea and starting other land wars.
it kinda worked once, for the romans against hannibal. so we must try it again and again.
That wasn’t entirely land based though and carthage didn’t have a native standing army.
and also carthage seemed to have no institutional army, unlike the romans, who had something resembling an institution that was able to absorb enormous losses and, after a lot of ridiculous behavior, learn new things. carthage had hannibal, which has no contingency.
and yeah, they disrupted one land war by crossing the sea and starting other land wars.
Is it really comparable? They don’t even use war elephants smh
modern wars, eh? does anyone even want to win? why arent they using war elephants?!
Modern war elephants with modern weapons like rotary cannons and missile launchers. Why has no one tried this yet? /j