"Hoplites, schmoplites" - Artaxerxes, probablyhttps://twitter.com/askhistorians/status/1462859425639583747 …
Almost like the hoplite fought w/ equipment and a style of warfare that was well suited to Greece, the W. coast of Anatolia and S. Italy but didn't travel well, while Persians practiced warfare that was - because it had to be - generally effective in a broader range of places.
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It's almost as if, Polybios notwithstanding, military success actually hangs on quite a lot more than the individual utility of one's heavy infantry
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To be fair to Polybius, he notes, "it is better to give battle with half as many infantry as the enemy and an overwhelming force of cavalry than to be in all respects equal" (Plb. 3.117). Or the shorthand I use, "cavalry superiority covereth a multitude of sins."
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There was a reason that Persians hired large numbers of Greek hoplites, but they integrated them into their rather effective system rather than use them to replace that system.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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