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It's the opposite. Phalanxes are the kind of thing where a break in coordination by any one man results you all getting rekt. The conflict between the Greeks a
by Gollapalli 4y ago
It's the opposite.
Phalanxes are the kind of thing where a break in coordination by any one man results you all getting rekt. The conflict between the Greeks and the Persians is a pretty good example of what happens when you have specialized men against a much larger force of levied up men of dubious quality. The Greeks won.
- xhevahir 4y agoI probably shouldn't have used the word "non-specialized." I mean that in comparison with the armies of early Iron Age Greece the hoplite army of democratic Athens was relatively non-hierarchical, without such heavy dependence on a class of professional, full-time soldiers. (The author of this article compares that earlier type of combat to the sort of battle waged by indigenous New Guineans: https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/greek-warfare-homer/ https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/greek-warfare-... ).