Friday Collections Post: Part I of my historian's look at the Siege of Gondor, is up. We're starting by looking at the plausibility of Mordor's operational plan and the logistics thereof, for both the book and the movie.https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondor/ …
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Some of this sounds vaguely familiar. Delivering sieges....
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And thus do I filter out into pop culture! (That notion is original to me, by the way; I'm not sure it's ever really been articulated that way, although the understanding of how crucial sieges were --numerically and strategically-- is widely shared)
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Also, it's not right all the time. As Cliff Rogers reminded me, armies that don't have the resources to lay siege, will instead conduct raiding/devastation campaigns, and those too can lead to field battles. Thus the death of Theodred in Saruman's early raiding operations.
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Oh, absolutely. I originally planned a note about how Greek warfare in the classical period is defined by their inability to siege effectively, but decided the post was long enough as it was.
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