Yes an argument that has been exhausted to torture in Historum with all the Indian lovers trying to speculate all the impossible negative arguments and how marvellously strong was the Nandas with their thousands of war elephants and all their argument based on an extract from Plutarch about the empire across the river and how Alexander would cross the river Ganges etc etc without a stich of written evidence and above all,none of
them took into account Alexander(?)
Despite opinions to the contrary,Alexander was the lord of Asia and he intended to use Asia and its inexhaustible manpoewer and riches whatever
those were, to further his own ends.Already he was using Persian cavalry
units for his army as light(Persian) and heavy(Skyth and Sacca) cavalry in great numbers commaded by its native officers but with Macedonians and Thessalians in overall command;there were 10000 Persian noblemen's sons training like Hypaspists,and many other innovations,some of them seen in his Afgan campain.Alexander's empire was not at its limits;Alexander had just started flexing his muscles;If he succeded what he succeded to conquer in under eight years with an army of 40000,we don't need a lot of imagination to envisage what he would have done in the next ten years if he were to stay alive until 50-60.The great Khan of the Mongols had conquered only part of the Mongol empire when he died in 1227 and the great empire was due to his son's Ogodai achievements keeping as his fighting arm an Alexander-class friend of his father,Subodai.
What Alexander would do at that age? only wild speculation can near the truth,but India would never be his problem...
I am an admirer of Alexander's strategic and tactical genius but a denouncer of his elementary High Strategy(he was a head of state,a king)
and even more,his non-existent 'War Politics'.
All the Eastern armies were inferior to European armies on one aspect among others but the most important,and the Indian armies were more afflicted than most of that:lack of iron discipline;the discipline of the Greek Phalanx of the 5th and 4th centuries BC and the Roman legions after the innovations of Marius,that discipline which,under heavy odds and
despite of them grasped victories and held them.
The Mongolian archers fighting like a mob were ordinary nomads;the moment Ghinghis Khan sybjected them to the "YassaK" the world saw the most capable cavalry force the world had ever seen which conquered Eurasia from the Pacific to Adriatic in about a generation.
them took into account Alexander(?)
Despite opinions to the contrary,Alexander was the lord of Asia and he intended to use Asia and its inexhaustible manpoewer and riches whatever
those were, to further his own ends.Already he was using Persian cavalry
units for his army as light(Persian) and heavy(Skyth and Sacca) cavalry in great numbers commaded by its native officers but with Macedonians and Thessalians in overall command;there were 10000 Persian noblemen's sons training like Hypaspists,and many other innovations,some of them seen in his Afgan campain.Alexander's empire was not at its limits;Alexander had just started flexing his muscles;If he succeded what he succeded to conquer in under eight years with an army of 40000,we don't need a lot of imagination to envisage what he would have done in the next ten years if he were to stay alive until 50-60.The great Khan of the Mongols had conquered only part of the Mongol empire when he died in 1227 and the great empire was due to his son's Ogodai achievements keeping as his fighting arm an Alexander-class friend of his father,Subodai.
What Alexander would do at that age? only wild speculation can near the truth,but India would never be his problem...
I am an admirer of Alexander's strategic and tactical genius but a denouncer of his elementary High Strategy(he was a head of state,a king)
and even more,his non-existent 'War Politics'.
All the Eastern armies were inferior to European armies on one aspect among others but the most important,and the Indian armies were more afflicted than most of that:lack of iron discipline;the discipline of the Greek Phalanx of the 5th and 4th centuries BC and the Roman legions after the innovations of Marius,that discipline which,under heavy odds and
despite of them grasped victories and held them.
The Mongolian archers fighting like a mob were ordinary nomads;the moment Ghinghis Khan sybjected them to the "YassaK" the world saw the most capable cavalry force the world had ever seen which conquered Eurasia from the Pacific to Adriatic in about a generation.
