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and that's about the same amount
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that the Athenians got out of their empire.
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So, you are talking about lots and lots of money
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and this explains the economic capacity
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that gave Philip the chance to use the kind of army he had.
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But he was extraordinarily skillful at the game of diplomacy.
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I say game, because he treated it in that way.
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Diplomacy, I think, for him was an extension of
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military forces by peaceful means.
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It's kind of a standing Clausewitz's definition of war on its head.
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Who was it?
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Sir John Fortescue, I think,