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  1. Re: Cases where war wagons caused their users to decisively lose the battle?

    I think we can also add the Battle of the Carts (335BC) to this discussion. I am not familiar with this battle, but apparently Alexander the Great may also have ran into some war wagons while he was...
  2. Re: Cases where war wagons caused their users to decisively lose the battle?

    While my answer will not feature war wagons, I would like to offer you and others another interesting case study.


    The Battle of Watling Street (61AD)...
  3. Can Intelligence Failure Explain the Fall of France?

    Though many reasons have been given, it remains one of the most unexplained defeats in military history. No one in 1940 had predicted that France would fall in just six weeks to Nazi Germany. Adding...
  4. Did the Rome Empire have a Grand Strategy?

    Grand strategy, one way or another, almost always relates back to long term planning and strategic vision. But can a civilization without a word for strategy and grand strategy possess such a concept...
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    Re: Columbus Was Chinese

    He also gets a huge point for being Christian - an undeniable part of his legacy.
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    Re: The Vanishing of Flinn

    Made a quick phone call. He's not at Gitmo, so that's the good news. I even asked a couple knuckleheads there for a copy of the roster to make sure.

    https://i.ibb.co/yB5jYM8/phot2.png

    Really...
  7. Re: Would a soldier be held responsible in this case in a war?

    I won't give a broad and complete answer, but your best case study for draconian laws likes this --in the ancient era-- is obviously Sparta. Otherwise, Septentrionalis gives a very good overview of...
  8. Re: What does YOUR daddy even do? [Chuckles smugly]

    No Akar. I am your father.

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_okSIvb7zcQE/Ryt8ukHcEMI/AAAAAAAAAlA/giiJkT3Iqvs/s320/Cheney_anakin.jpg
  9. Re: What new movies that are within Rome 2 Total War's historical period would like to be made?

    I second Alcibiades. Would be a great historical epic all around. For an action-comedy however, Rome, Sweet Rome would be tough to beat.
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    The Best Wub Bombs in History.

    One of my all-time favorite internet jokes. No doubt many have seen this list before, but history is sometimes worth a repeat.


    The Most Appropriate Wub Bombs in History
    Presented by Dick...
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    Did Order 227 make sense?

    “To execute this order - means to defend our lands, to save the Motherland, to exterminate and to conquer the hated enemy… I think it is necessary.”
    —People's Commissar for Defense of the USSR:...
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    Re: Are you worth saving?

    In a perfect state of nature there is no judge, there are no laws, there is no sin, and there is no morality. Concepts of justice and injustice do not exist, man is wolf to man, and might makes...
  13. How important was the Roman Formation at Cape Ecnomus?

    The history of warfare proves that disaster usually falls upon the force that loses its cohesion. When formations are shattered, rout usually follows. And it is in unorganized retreat, as well as in...
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    Who won the Battle of the Hydaspes?

    "I do not pilfer victory." - Alexander the Great

    The Battle of the Hydaspes (326 BC) was the last major battle of Alexander the Great. A truly remarkable battle, fought near the end of the known...
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    Re: Hannibal Barca: Leadership, not Tactics

    The thing is everybody sucked at sieges. Sun Tzu wrote in 500BC that the worst policy was to attack cities, and that commanders instead should try to win wars without fighting.

    In Hannibal’s...
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    Re: Gimme loincloth

    I don't post much on the TD, but I'll lobby for Cookiegod.

    Support.
  17. Napoleon’s Grand Battery: Desperation or Tactical Revolution?

    “Great battles are won by artillery,” so says the god of war. But the history of the French Grand Battery is a murky one at best. Arguably there was no such thing as “The Grand Battery,” as it wasn’t...
  18. Re: And now for something different - 8 Values.

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    Re: The Disobedient Roman Soldier

    I think I would also add the testudo formation for discussion.
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  20. Poll: Re: Thema Devia Kangaroo Court of Justice - The People v Akar

    For military coup, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and summary executions, along with kangaroo courts, milk money theft, and the bastardization of weights and measurements,...
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    Re: The Disobedient Roman Soldier

    You have a good thesis, but the model I think you're looking for is shock tactics. Skirmishers, in contrast, fight individually, have no formations, and are used for harassment and delay.

    As...
  22. Spring 1918: Could Ludendorff have won World War I?

    "On the 29th and 30th he attacked the [Allies] with incredible violence and incredible losses. Certainly no democratic power would pour forth blood as he does. He must be short of food, or he would...
  23. How to Win a Nuclear War (According to Herman Kahn)

    "We don’t want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?"
    ---Capt.Mandrake (Peter Sellers). Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
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    Re: Who was Alcibiades?

    I went ahead and added the footnotes for the Alexander comparison. Here again is one of the opinions I was referring to:




    I’m curious though, what were Athens exact war aims in Sicily? And to...
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    Who was Alcibiades?

    “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts”
    - -William Shakespeare

    “The...
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    Re: War with Canada incoming?

    Blahh.. no comment on invading Canada.
  27. Re: The thread where we say Gladiator (2000) quotes at each other to form a conversation

    uSuthu!

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_hC6y0-EkZ0/T48vpakHSWI/AAAAAAAAABc/Z_7u1n06uAU/s320/zulu-tribe.jpg
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    What was the Schlieffen Plan?

    There is no war plan in history that has been scrutinized or shrouded in as much confusion and debate as the now infamous Schlieffen Plan. Historians are completely divided as to what exactly it...
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    Moral Guide to the Prisoner's Dilemma

    Considered one of the most consequential models in game theory, decision-making, and modern ethics, the Prisoners’ Dilemma explains how you and I might not cooperate, even if it is generally...
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    Sticky: Re: Historical arguments.

    US Grant. However, Washington, Marshall, Meigs, and Mahan were all equally outstanding leaders.
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    Was Hannibal perfect at Zama?

    “Had you not defeated me, I would have placed myself greater than Alexander.”
    -Hannibal Barca to Scipio Africanus

    Hannibal Barca is unquestionably one of the great battlefield tacticians of...
  32. Is yin yang an accurate image of good and evil?

    When talking about morality I do like the yin yang symbol.

    https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b30b944a70721aad026835853dc76812-c

    Obviously, my own interpretation of yin yang has been...
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    Re: Who would win?

    Dick Cheney vs. Vladimir Putin?

    https://www.hmak.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A-600x330.jpg
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    What is Hybrid Warfare?

    Though popularized recently with Russian military intervention into the Ukraine, there is plenty of debate in both academia and defense circles as to what exactly is hybrid warfare. Proponents of a...
  35. Re: Was China really that far ahead of everyone else in the past?

    I was hoping to demonstrate that the Four Great Inventions had some clout with academia. As far a mainstream audience is concerned, they were even featured at the Olympic games.

    However, given my...
  36. Re: Was China really that far ahead of everyone else in the past?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions


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    Should morale be a principle of war?

    The Principles of War are mostly defined as guidelines and “best practices” that have generally proven true throughout the history of warfare. The US Army for instance, currently recognizes nine...
  38. Re: ‘No force can stop China’: Beijing shows off HYPERSONIC missiles & STEALTH drones at 70th National Day parade

    Below is a link to a CRS report on Hypersonic Weapons (2019). Also highlighted are a few passages for Exarch.

    Hypersonic Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress (Sept 2019)...
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    Re: Purpose of Echelon Formation?

    @Common Solider
    Sar1n got here before I did. He does a better job then I do, but below is my two cents.



    I don’t think a slanted line is always synonymous with a flank attack (which is an...
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    Re: Purpose of Echelon Formation?

    The purpose of the oblique order is to reject attack along the entire front for both you and your opponent. A slanted axis means only a portion of your line will make initial contact with the enemy....
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