The Characteristics Of The Peloponnesian War

“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”

Thucydides

The bloody brotherhood war during the ancient Greek, known as “Peloponnesian War”, that remains and continues nowadays in different ways. The desire and the power to control everything, forever, it can be a tragic, as history has shown. Athenians and Spartans have conducted the greatest war in the humankind history. The long and comprehensive war through alliances and leadership for three decades, with different policy and strategies from the both sides politically and militarily, were the biggest determinants for the ends.

To understand the complexity of the Peloponnesian War it is vital to identify differences between those two city-states. The differences between Athene and Sparta were on political system, military and culture. Athenians were limited democracy, while Spartan was a more centralized oligarchy. The Spartans accentuated on expanding their power and gaining control over other vital territories through military rebellions, with rule based strategy at the beginning, while the Athenians were more oriented on economic, infrastructure, and leadership, political system through the Dalian league to dominate in long-term perspective, through end based strategy.

Furthermore, Pericles was prominent and good orator, but he changed the character of

Athenian strategy first and almost was dominated by Navy supremacy. “2.13 Pericles, a top Athenian general, basically lays out a defensive strategy, telling people to move back into the city, maintaining a tight noose on their allies for whence funding could be acquired.” The initial Athenian Strategy, were shaping the battlefield (avoid decisive land operation), with simple approach avoid land battles with Spartan and attack over the Spartan alliances with the great Navy fleet. The biggest change and shifting policy during the entire war was Sicilian