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The book analyse the evolution of warfare from the basic ways of fighting and waging war found in the first early civilizations and great millitary powers such as Assyria, Babylon etc in which the prevalence was given to chariot warfare as the strongest and most elite body of warfare in comparative with the greeks in which contrary to the eastern men had a focus on direct and brutal and yet "simple" warfare.
— Dec 23, 2025 12:21PM
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The Macedonians were the most proficient example of the adaptation of combined arms in antiquity with Phillip of Macedon II being the skilled crasftman who (inspiring himself on the Persians) notably was able to forge a solid unit of cavalrymen elite and to adapt the infantry for battle in a way in which it was never reached before by the greeks or otherwise. The Macedonians could be considered the "peak"
— Dec 23, 2025 08:52PM
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The main focus of this book is the evolution of "combined arms" in ancient armies ,as in how armies adapted and evolved with each warfare and in response to opponents and technological adaptations how civilization evolve from the basic drills and ways to wage war according to their environments to more complex and complementary forms of tactics and units evolution in order to adapt to the needs of time.
— Dec 23, 2025 12:28PM
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However, this suppreme domiance of chariot warfare would soon face it's counter and be defeated by more organized infantry drills and tactics which would eventually render the chariots a weapon of the past, likewise at the time the usage of horses (in the sense of cavalry) for warfare was very limited and not nearly as impactful compared to what it would rise up to be in the future.
— Dec 23, 2025 12:24PM
