These exercises enable training units to test their tactics ... That was impressive to see from the Spartan brigade. Additionally, the talk among commanders at every Echelon was impressive ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” ...

The operation is managed by an organization called Task Force Spartan, which is made of active Army and National Guard units ...