[thulldud]

Now I doubt that Hannibal read The Art of War, or even heard of Sun Tzu.

Hannibal could have written his own book on war. He spanked the Romans black-and-blue every time they met on the field. Very likely, if Carthage had had a reliable naval supply line to him in Italy, he could have made the entire Roman federation break up and join him — that is what he was aiming for.

Instead, Rome's allies, knowing that he couldn't cover every place in Italy, and couldn't stay there forever, put two and two together and opted to try to keep Rome happy meanwhile.

Eventually a new generation of Roman leaders arose who had studied Hannibal's methods, and were able to use them against him.

[Condor51]

Undoubtedly Hannibal was a great military leader. And for sure he was a thorn in Rome's side for a very long time. But I was just focused on Bill Whittle's video commentary. If he hadn't named 'Hannibal', he could have been reciting from Sun Tzu's, 'The Art of War'.

And the one part he mentioned - about Hannibal funneling Rome's 'overwhelming' Legions into a small gap - reminded me of Thermopylae (480 BC) with King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans ₍₁₎, against Xerxes and his 'overwhelming' Persian forces.

(1) Molon Labe