War elephants! Ancient history’s most unforgettable battlefield beasts. In this bonus Dad Tangent, we stomp through the muddy tracks of Carthaginian elephant warfare: how they trained them, what made them terrifying, and why sometimes… they backfired. From trampled infantry to logistical nightmares, it’s everything you didn’t know you needed about the original armored divisionsof the ancient world.

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