{"id":1354,"date":"2012-05-01T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2022-04-27T22:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T02:24:25","slug":"caesar-on-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/caesar-on-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar on Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is publication day for <em>Masters of Command<\/em>. I\u2019m asking each of the book\u2019s three masters for the lessons of his leadership. Yesterday I interviewed the ghost of Hannibal and Sunday I spoke to the shade of Alexander the Great. Today I speak to Caesar\u2019s Ghost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&w=2560&ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1355\" title=\"Caesar-like man in Met - close-up blog\" src=\"https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog-150x150.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog-150x150.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;zoom=0.4&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/e54brx69fnk.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caesar-like-man-in-Met-close-up-blog.jpg?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Hail, Caesar. What makes you a greater leader than Alexander or Hannibal?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHail, Professor. Congratulations on your new book. With Caesar in the title it cannot fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Dictator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell that you are busy today, so let me get right to the point \u2013 with audacity and speed. Caesar is Caesar, after all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cAll wars are won by two things \u2013 arms and words. Words alone are weak but arms without words are found wanting. With the right words behind them, arms fly into battle \u2013 and to victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of my later admirers put it, \u2018in war the moral is to the material as three to one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was Napoleon, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA would-be Caesar. But if you want to win wars, here is all you need to know:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVENI VIDI VICI. \u2018I came, I saw, I conquered.\u2019 Alexander and Hannibal each earned a long roll of achievements. Only Caesar can be summed up in three words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barry Strauss is professor of history at Cornell and author of <em>Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar and the Genius of Leadership<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, May).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[392],"tags":[38,395,14,259,19,40,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrystrauss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}