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Macedonian tactic where infantry fixes the enemy and cavalry strikes decisively.
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anvil and hammer
Macedonian tactic where infantry fixes the enemy and cavalry strikes decisively.
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Glossary
A coordinated tactic in which the phalanx fixes the enemy in place and cavalry attacks from behind to destroy it.
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The anvil-and-hammer tactic locks the enemy with infantry and smashes it with cavalry, enabling Alexander’s conquest of Persia.
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At Pharsalus, optimate pressure overrides Pompey's preferred containment strategy, and Caesar's disciplined army withstands the cavalry hammer-and-anvil maneuver.
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The anvil-and-hammer tactic depends on disciplined coordination between phalanx and cavalry: the phalanx pins the enemy while cavalry strikes from behind.
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"...and what is major military innovation was something called the anvil and hammer okay basically what would happen is like your infantry will lock..."
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"...comes in and smashes you apart okay the anvil and the hammer so what happened is that um Philip II will go conquer Greece..."
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"Okay? All right? But that's what Julius Caesar is doing. He's winning these wars against his opponents and he's letting them go. He's forgiving..."
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"Pompey chooses to use the anvil and hammer strategy. Remember what the anvil and hammer strategy is, where your infantry locks the enemy, the..."
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"...get them to work together, you create something called the anvil and hammer strategy. Okay? Anvil and hammer. Okay? So the idea of an..."
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