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I'd put my money on the koryos, in the koryos vs phalanx showdown. The Germanic tribes of the 1st century AD were more or less the direct descendants of those lads, and the Roman legions couldn't take them, despite their superior weaponry, tactics, and famous discipline.

I was reading up on the koryos a while ago. We'd do well to bring something like that back as a coming of age. The ancient Greeks understood that civilization could only really be justified if it enabled barbarian vigor to be preserved, and consciously sought to make themselves the middle path between barbarians such as the Scythians, and over-civilized peoples such as the Persians ... though it was the Scythians they admired more.

I've often felt that we could achieve quite a bit if we raised our youth as if it were the bronze age, and only after they passed their coming of age tests allowed them the comforts of modernity.

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Oct 10, 2022·edited Oct 26, 2022Liked by Mark Bisone

Speaking of Antifa, weakness and external appearance, you ever seen John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars?". That film's premise describes Anteefers to a "T". Possession by some kind of ancient spirits causes them to disfigure themselves and try to destroy society.

What's really scary is that some of them are being trained by someone with knowledge of military tactics. I read an article a while back about how Antifa chased four military/contractor types out of town.

They used C3 (command, control and communications) to neutralize the contractors' training and concealed weapons by coordinated use of flashlights/lasers, physical attacks and mass.

I'll have to find the link later, but it's a pretty chilling read.

Update10-25-22: Here's the link to the post about Antifa with apparent tactical training.

https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/09/antifa-reality-check/

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Technically, the Roman miles wasn’t a hoplite.

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