BOOK 2. THE BATH SCHOOL. N. LEVASHOV'S «SVETL BROOM» IN A. KHATYBOV'S «BATH SCHOOL» AND A LABOUR SPADE

Book 2. The Bath School. Chapter 5. Correction of the Brain structure before and after taking the Bath 244 example, he could not take the advice of the Greek Memnon, who had served King Philip, the father of the Macedonian. The Greek said to Darius: "You must not fight with Alexander for a number of reasons," and he gave the reasons. But the Persian grandees who had influence on the tsar were not military strategists, but masters of machinery of State games and intrigues (exactly like our today's Government ). They just did not understand the nature of the danger and the essence of the Greek advice and thought more about how to use the fact of victory in their own interests. How to defeat the Macedonian – they did not think about it at all, it seemed obvious to them, because they were victims of a propagandistic myth, too. In this atmosphere, the hired Greek commander, the only one who realized the situation and rules of the game, was useless. He was like a man giving advice to people who can not play chess. He advises giving in the knight to mate later. But pseudo-players fall into anger because of a proposal to sacrifice a knight and begin to suspect of treachery. If Memnon had had he opportunity to command the army, he would have compensated for the quality of the human material of the Persian army with a strategy and tactics of a high level. Napoleon said : one Arab will defeat five Frenchmen. But ten thousand Frenchmen will defeat fifty thousand Arabs. If the Arabs had had their own Napoleon, the advantage of the Arabs would have been preserved. But since Napoleon was with the French, the Arabs lost. If the Macedonian had been opposed by a comparable military leader, he would not have had the chance. The Persians would have won because of the numerical advantage, despite the higher quality of Greek warriors and the genius of Alexander of Macedon. But the commanders of the Persian army could not be compared with Alexander. They were good for punitive expeditions among the civilian population. Against the military machine they were helpless, as the police are helpless against the army. The Persian bureaucracy could not entrust the command on the Greek. Everyone realized that. Memnon realized that, too, therefore he tried to dissuade the Persians from the war. He argued: if the Macedonian lose, nothing terrible will happen, a usual military failure. But if you lose, you will lose your country. The Greek offered the tactic of "scorched earth": to retreat to the deep into the country, leaving behind a desert – to destroy crops, burn villages, towns; take the bread, the cattle. The army of the Macedonian would have died of hunger, thirst and other problems unavoidable for a large mass of people caught in the desert.