Who is Darius from Strategy and what is their importance?

In 490 BC, Dariaus (Persian general) led assaults against the city-state of Athens on the Greek peninsula. The author provides his excellent example of how to win by drawing out the armed forces of an opponent combined with making the most of those forces that are in favor of the invaders (for whatever reasons, such as public policy, economic, religious, or others). He achieved this by landing twenty-four miles from Athens in order to attack it, and the opposition was lured into a frontal assault that distracted them from their defensive positions.