"Reading Xenophon's Anabasis as the tale of how a tactically superior, but numerically small, western force withdraws with their lives and honor intact from a dubious entanglement of an ancient Middle Eastern civilization is a profitable modern use of Xenophon's text."
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20090228_art015.pdf
lol I see what you did there