Alexander and his core group regularly ACQUIRED soldiers from all sorts of ethnic groups and nations on their way East. When they finally were stopped along the Indus, and allowed to escape back to the West, the army just wasn’t what it had been back in Greece.
Definitely! - Same with Rome - and we are heading that direction by allowing our system to be infilitrated and torn apart from within.
My time in Iraq 2003- 2008 - I was able to go to alot of historical sites (becuase we had the guns) and was able to talk to alot of the locals (usually the older males - like grandpa’s) and they would talk about all sorts of things as they occurred...the youth though - didn’t care.