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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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Philip's controversial reform was to turn the army into a meritocracy by making noble cavalry and common infantry equal in promotion according to battlefield performance.
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"...different land forces. Right? There's a phalanx. And then there's a cavalry. And they do their own thing. Okay? But with discipline, you can..."
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"...that he did that was extremely controversial was he made the cavalry, which was full of nobility, equal to the infantry, which was made..."
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"...that the two armies meet, and then Hannibal will send his cavalry on the wings. And then they will envelop the Roman army, and..."
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"Reconquering in advance with the cavalry. Similarly, the enemy's cavalry was in front of his main body, Aaronus Tarquin, the king's son, in command...."
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"...different sections of your army get special privileges okay usually the cavalry because these are aristocrats they get all the privileges and everyone else..."
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"...it's called the anvil and then what will happen is your cavalry will sweep in from behind to smash the enemy cavalry it's called..."
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"...the infantry locks you in place you can't escape then the cavalry comes in and smashes you apart okay the anvil and the hammer..."
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"...And as the coalition tries to muster the right flank, the cavalry will come in and split the coalition into two, forcing them to..."
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"...escape. The problem, though, is that in Russia he's lost his cavalry. He no longer has cavalry in battle, okay? So there's a huge..."
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"...democracy. Macedonia, where Alexander the Great is from, it was a cavalry -based, army, and because only the nobility could afford horses, it was..."
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"...professional soldiers that must be supported by the economy. This is cavalry, the Roman cavalry. And obviously, these are nobility because only they can..."
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"...are using spears and pikes to gather, okay? They also have cavalry as well. So the problem for the Europeans is how do you..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Napoleon looks like the genius of the French Revolution because he gives history its most cinematic image: speed, war, destiny, empire.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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