<p># One can't reasonably argue that their physical weakness or low tesosterone levels prevented women from being successful mandarins, generals and politicians. In order to manage a war, you surely need stamina, but not much physical strength or aggressiveness. Wars are not a pub brawl(싸움). They are very complex projects that require an extraordinary degree of organization, cooperation and appeasement(유화). The ability to maintain peace at home, acquire allies abroad, and understand what goes through the minds of other people (particulary your enemies) is usually the key to victory. Hence an aggressive brute(짐승) is often the worst choice to run a war. Much better is a cooperative person who knows how to appease, how to manipulate and how to see things from different perspectives. This is the stuff empire-buildiers are made of. The militarily incompetent Augustus succeeded in establishing a stable imperial regime, achieving something that eluded(피하다) both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, who were much better generals. Both his admiring contemporaries and modern historians often attribute this feat to his virtue of clementia - mildness and clemency(관용). </p>
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