Why the fuck didn't Alexander continue East with a mercenary army rather than go home with his uppity Macedonian...

Why the fuck didn't Alexander continue East with a mercenary army rather than go home with his uppity Macedonian soilders?

He could have conquered the orient and controlled the Silk Road in perpetuity

>What is Logistics

>he could have conquered the orient
dude just conquer China despite them having more than 50% of the global population, being highly militarized from centuries of war, and each individual state fielding a larger army than Alexander ever did.

its easy, you can do it with mercenaries

He had virtually no opposition other than squabbling regional shitskin and chink tribes. He could have picked them off one by one.

C'mon user, you can bait better than that.

Those "regional shitskin" tribes were the only army that came close to defeating him. Read about the battle of the Hydaspes river.

a high level of discourse is expected, Chinese warring states period military technology and logistics were greatly superior to Alexander's

why is that frog holding his cigarette like some kind of a european nazi in a movie

Hank?

he got rekt in India

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP HE COULD HAVE CONQUERED THE WORLD DONT YOU UNDERSTAND HIS SOLDIERS MADE HIM GO BACK NOT HIM I KNOW HE HAD A NARROW VICTORY OVER THAT TINY ASS INDIAN KINGDOM BUT FUCK FACTS HE COULD HAVE DEFEATED THAT MUCH LARGER ARMY ACROSS THE BASIN SOMEHOW AND THEN SOMEHOW APPLIED HIS PHALANX IN THE JUNGLES OF GUERRILLA FIGHTING SOUTH EAST ASIA AND THEN CONQUERED ALL OF THE SEVEN MASSIVE WARRING STATES OF CHINA IN ONLY 15 YEARS TOPS EAT SHIT

India was a proto-Empire at the time you actual mongoloid

Great thread

With what mercenaries? Bactrians? That'll go well for him.

Bactrians, Thracians and Persians would have sufficed

The Macedonians would have been pissed.

They didn't even want to be there... they wanted to go home anyways, why would they care?

Because their leader ignoring the wishes of Macedonians to go take a bunch of barbarian mercenaries, using the Macedonian treasury, to go win riches and glory, without any Macedonians to benefit from it, would have annoyed them. And the Greeks would have just straight up revolted with Alexander gone off to the wild unknown to get killed by the Chinese.

>squabbling
Pretty sure Alexander was contemporary with the Warring States era, and that was a pretty crazy period in Chinese history.

I honestly doubt he could out logistic Qin China. They were just that good. Fuck, I highly doubt he could have even won against them.

Because his uppity macedonian soldiers were veterans and his loyal supporters and mercenaries werent.

>what is the Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian