Ping.
Read the article. I suspect that you could go to town on this one!
Been a long while since I last read Thucydides' "Peleponnesian War", and I have not yet read VDH's take on the subject.
otoh, this author is foolish enough to equate "madcap" (truly insane, disastrously impulsive) with "slapstick" (benny hill skits), and that does not augur well for his critical abilities.