The spear that is thrown is lost.

Military Strategists
Shaka Zulu
The Zulu king who transformed a minor southern African tribe into a military superpower through revolutionary weapons, tactics, and organizational reform (c. 1787-1828). Shaka Zulu independently reinvented principles of close combat, professional armies, and encirclement warfare that paralleled developments in ancient Rome and Mongolia.
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