The Melian Dialogues: Might Disposes of the Right
Some 2,500 years ago war raged in Greece between the powerful states of Athens and Sparta. The many cities and islands of the mainland and the Aegean either took sides or remained neutral.
One such neutral island was Melos, south east of Athens, and very near to a string of its island allies, or subjects- the Delian League. The Athenians decided that it would be good strategic policy to tidy up this anomaly of a neutral among the aligned. Therefore they dispatched a military expedition with the remit: either bring Melos into our orbit, or destroy it.
