Excerpts on War
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- 3000 Years of Combat with Sword and Shield
- Acquiring Coup d’oeil, the General’s Discerning Glance
- Advantages of Swords Over Pistols in Dueling
- An All-Around Mounted Warrior
- Ancient Fortifications Were Impervious – Updated
- Anticipating Surprise
- Apex of Western Cavalry
- Archer-Pair in Assyrian and Persian Warfare
- Armor Was Designed for Protection Against Glancing Blows
- Art of Japanese Spear Fighting
- Assaulting Cities is the Oldest Expression of Warfare
- Assyria Was Unstrategically Located
- Assyrian Army of the Sargonid Period
- Assyrian Warfare: Iron, Organization, and Espionage
- Assyrians Were Ancient Masters of the Siege
- Assyrians: the Pioneers with Iron
- Backstabbing Assassins, Not Knights of the Air
- Battle Casualties in the Ancient World
- Battle of Leuctra
- Before the Fencing Master
- Birth of Cavalry
- The Bow Was the Chief Weapon in Japanese Warfare
- Bronze Age Greek Art of War
- Bronze: the Plastic of Its Age
- Byzantine Cavalry Basics
- Capacities of Commanders
- Cavalry Replaces Chariots in Chinese Art of War
- Cavalry is an Expensive Military System
- Chariot Tactics
- The Combat of the Thirty
- Compound Bows Were Superior But Expensive
- Courage, Not Manners, Was the Hallmark of a Gentleman
- Covering a Withdrawal
- Cuirass Versus Lamellar Armor
- Deception in War
- Decline of Cavalry in Western Europe
- The Despised Foot Soldier
- Disease, the Wild Card of History
- Dueling and the God of Peer Opinion
- Early Firearm Tactics: Pike and Arquebus
- Early Iron Age Armies
- Eight Kinds of Decadence in Generalship
- Elephants in War
- Fame Was More Important Than Life
- Few Pitched Battles But Many Sieges
- The Fickle Deity, Pan
- First Principle of War: the Objective
- Five Skills And Four Desires of Generalship
- For Byzantines, Strategy Was All-Important
- From Ghazi to Sipahi
- From Hunters to Warriors
- From Jousting for Glory to Dueling for Honor
- Greek Missile Tactics
- Hand-to-Hand Combat Was Rare in Ancient Warfare
- Heavy Infantry With a Vengeance: the Greek Phalanx
- Heroic Honor Trophies in Homeric Greece
- Hoplite Shield Was an Engineering Marvel
- How Great Generals Win
- Hunnic Bow and Mongolian Release
- Hunting as War Training
- The Iliad is Not Just a Glorious Poem
- Imagining the Centaur
- In Every Army There is a Mob Waiting to Escape
- Inner Factors of Bujutsu
- Inside the Greek Phalanx
- Iron Age Logistics
- Japanese Spears: Yari and Naginata
- Javelins versus Chariots
- King’s Armiger
- Looking At The Enemy
- Material Cost Versus Psychological Benefit of Sieges
- Militant Clergy
- The Military Genius of Alexander the Great
- Military Systems
- Mission Tactics: Knowing When Not to Obey Orders
- Money and Manpower Wins Wars
- More on Hunting as War Training
- No Last-Minute Maneuvers
- No Match for a Well-Trained Aristocrat
- Not Quite a Chessboard: the Plain as Battlefield
- Not a General’s Affair
- On Dragoons
- Origin of the Rank and Grades of General
- Origins of European Army Ranks
- Outpouring from the Steppe
- Parthian Cavalry
- Prepared to Die But Not to Kill
- Prerequisite For A Military Career
- The Purpose of War is a More Perfect Peace
- The Rapier Was the Blade of Choice
- Rarity of the Set-Piece Battle
- Redefinition of Courage
- Regimental Proprietary System
- Religious Rituals of War
- The Riddle of Steel
- Romans Made War As Much Business As Art
- The Shield is the Earliest Defensive Armor – New
- Silk Shirts Lessen Arrow Wounds
- Soldiers of Greece and Rome
- Steppe Ponies, Not Horses
- Stone Age of Command
- The Subject of Heroic Poetry is the Hero
- Such A Reputation
- Tactical Capabilities of Medieval Weapon Systems
- Ten Uses For Cavalry
- There Are Nine Types of Generals
- To Sleep Forever Among His Own: The Unknown Soldier
- Transformation of the Hoplite Phalanx
- A Vast Encampment
- Versatility of the Napoleonic Army Corps
- War Became an End in Itself: Assyria
- War Was Made to Pay for Itself Through Pillage
- War’s Appetite for Bronze
- Warrior or Hired Killer?
- Warriors for War’s Sake: the Horse Peoples
- Web of Interdependence
- You And Your Enemy
- Zenith of the Castle
