“They’d come in hot to places like Beirut, want to slap handcuffs on people and disrupt operations we’d been cultivating for years,” one former CIA case officer said. “They’d come in hot to places like Beirut, want to slap handcuffs on people and disrupt operations we’d been ...
They pitched in for a couple of crucial battles in the Persian Wars. After that, they played spoilers, struggling to displace Athens and to conquer Greece. Unfortunately for them, all their vaunted military prowess was insufficient to the task. No matter how mighty their soldiers, they couldn...