Alexander by nature loved giving detailed instructions.
And since this was for his army, the most important base of his power, of course, Alexander would be detailed to the point of being pedantic.
As the parchment was turned over, Menes, and others who were given the parchment too for that matter, all grimaced the same way when they saw that the other side of the page also had the same amount of voluminous writing, with all the words squeezed together to look like compact rows of apartment blocks.
'Just how detailed are the instructions?' Menes lampooned at the huge swath of instructions as he noticed that the instruction picked up from the previous page and said:
Due to the army's ability to march rapidly and in formation being at the core of our strategy, such skills, though hard to master, must be drilled with the utmost importance.
Thus the soldier must be taught the following things in his marching drills:
