#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

12872.064 - 12899.155 Gregory Aldrete

So a nice example is Afghanistan. Yeah. or roughly that sort of northern Pakistan slash into what is Afghanistan. I mean, that is a geographic region that over and over again, the best, most sophisticated armies in the world have invaded and have met horrible failure. And that goes all the way back to Alexander the Great tried to conquer that area. The Mongols tried to do it.