Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Some Tricks Never Get Old

When Caesar was conquering Gaul, he used an interesting tactic -- while in the midst of fighting, quite early in the war as a whole, he simply declared Gaul "pacified." Then, he no longer had to treat opponents as enemy combatants, but could deal with them as "insurregents" instead.

1 Comments:

At 4:27 PM , Blogger Libertarian Jason said...

Well, maybe if he would have used the line, "mission accomplished", it would have changed things for him. He could have rode in on horse, in a full suit of armor.... Now, wouldn't that be a sight!

:)

 

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