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Dhurandhar Final Chapter - ET TU BRUTUS — inspired from a Play by William Shakespeare Julius Caesar stabbed by Marcus Brutus, the man he trusted most. Seeing Brutus among the killers, Caesar whispers - Et Tu Brutus means "You too Brutus" and dies (As per Brutus, he kills Caesar...

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Why was Caesar Rome's Greatest General? (new Cost of Glory video) I think the best illustration may be his Pharsalus campaign, where he faced Pompey and the combined grand army of his optimate antagonists, in the Civil War. It began with Caesar's humiliating strategic loss at Dyrrhachium. But one of Caesar's master strokes: In a campaign in which everyone else (including most historians today) thought Caesar had time working against him. He *kind of* did, since Pompey was vastly better provisioned with food, money, ships, etc. But Caesar realized an opportunity to turn the tables: When he retreated to the wide plains of Thessaly, great cavalry country, he was luring Pompey into a position where Pompey was obviously superior (Pompey had 7x the cavalry that Caesar did). Pompey kept refusing battle, knowing Caesar's great strength, while trying to make it look like Caesar was the one refusing battle (really Pompey was just offering it on insane terms, outside his fort, up on a hill). But Caesar was just waiting for the pressure to build on Pompey (much of the senate was literally watching, while camped out with Pompey, and getting impatient). Caesar at last called Pompey's bluff, and packed up to retreat. Now, if Pompey let Caesar go when he had him on easy territory, he'd be revealed as timid. Caesar knew that, to stay at the top of Rome's leadership, Pompey couldn't just wear Caesar down in a war of attrition. He had to challenge him man to man. The whole campaign came down not so much to military supremacy, as to a clash of egos, of politics, and Caesar exploited this fact to the maximum. To settle it then and there was militarily and strategically unnecessary, the military risk/reward calculation was bad. But Caesar offered a temptation too great to refuse for someone whose objective was not pure victory, but securing his reputation. Not unlike Alexander's approach to Darius III! Pompey marched out, fought, and lost. Battle details herein:

Alex Petkas

55,965 views • 4 months ago

I read over 1,000 pages on Julius Caesar's leadership, these are my five top takeaways... 1. Caesar inspired his troops by fighting alongside them. In a battle against the Helvetii he rode to the frontlines, then sent away his horse to show that he would endure the battle with his soldiers. No matter the outcome. This inspired his men to fight for him, as he shared their danger. Key Lesson- You must always work alongside your employees. Let them know you share in their suffering. 2. Caesar always moved with speed and agility. Napoleon said: "The strength of an army, is estimated by multiplying the mass by the rapidity" The Romans under Caesar were not only the best engineers, but they were also the fastest. This gave them speed and agility both in travel, and in warfare. Key Lesson- Speed and agility. Speed and agility. Speed and agility. 3. Caesar expected his troops to always be ready. “He also made a habit during campaigns of not announcing the hour of the army’s departure beforehand as he expected his men to be prepared to follow him at any time." Key Lesson- You must expect your employees to always be ready. Always keep them moving. Never let stagnation settle in. 4. Caesar pushed his troops to the absolute limits. From his biography: "No Roman general ever pressed his troops harder than Caesar, but no army ever followed its leader more willingly." Key Lesson- Push your troops hard. It simply builds moral. 5. Caesar instilled a meritocracy. Also from his biography: "Caesar didn’t care what kind of background his men came from, wether they were Roman patricians by birth of the sons of a goatherd. All that mattered to him was how they conducted themselves in war." Key Lesson- Give room in the organization for talent to rise up in the ranks. This encourages performance.

Nic Munoz

74,458 views • 3 months ago

Napoleon studied Caesar. Caesar wept before a statue of Alexander. Alexander wanted to be Achilles. The greatest men the West ever produced were all trying to become the same Greek warrior... Alexander the Great kept a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. His tutor Aristotle had personally annotated an edition for him. According to Plutarch, when Alexander arrived at the ruins of Troy in 334 BC, he sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles and ran naked around it. He told the priests offering to show him Paris's harp that he had no interest in seeing the harp of a coward. "I would far rather see the lyre of Achilles," he said, "which he used to sing the glories of brave men." Three centuries later, in 69 BC, Julius Caesar was serving as quaestor in Spain when he stood in front of a statue of Alexander in the temple of Hercules at Cadiz. He was thirty-two: the same age at which Alexander had died, having already conquered most of the known world. Caesar wept. When his friends asked why, he answered, according to Plutarch: "Do you not think it is matter for sorrow that while Alexander, at my age, was already king of so many peoples, I have as yet achieved no brilliant success?" Eighteen centuries after that, Napoleon Bonaparte sat for his coronation portrait wearing a golden laurel wreath, modelled on the wreath of Julius Caesar. He carried with him on campaign the works of Plutarch and Caesar's own commentaries. Each of these men was reaching back, through the centuries, to the figure who came first. And that figure was a half-mortal Greek warrior who, when offered the choice between a long, quiet life and a short, glorious one, chose glory. The Greek name Akhilleus is most plausibly derived from akhos, meaning grief, and laos, meaning people. The grief of the people. The greatest hero of the Western imagination is not named for victory or for strength. He is named for sorrow... But that is the bargain: to choose greatness in the Achilles tradition is to choose a particular kind of suffering. Alexander died at thirty-two. Caesar was murdered by his closest friends. Napoleon ended his life on an island in the South Atlantic, looking at the sea. Each of them got what Achilles got: a name that has outlasted empires, and a life that was paid for in full. What drove the men who built Western civilization was not happiness. It was something older, deeper, and harder to name. The Greeks called it kleos: the glory that survives death. Achilles got there first. Three thousand years later, men are still trying to follow him... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

407,092 views • 3 months ago