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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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A correct war cost pyramid puts infantry at the bottom because soldiers are cheapest, then armor/artillery, naval power, and air power as more expensive layers.
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.
He defines hoplites as shield-and-spear infantry and phalanx as a moving wall formed by armored men standing together.
"And the most simple cost pyramid, okay, is, is this. Infantry, soldiers, okay? Alright? They're at the bottom. Why? Because they're the cheapest. What's..."
"...made the cavalry, which was full of nobility, equal to the infantry, which was made of commoners, peasants. So in this new system, as..."
"...was hilly. So you didn't really use cavalry. It was mainly infantry fighting against each other. What the Greeks did over hundreds of years,..."
"...occupied with their army in Ukraine. And this is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called..."
"...the Roman territory, the consuls advanced against them. Valerius, with the infantry and phalanx formation, Brutus recon..."
"...They can't use horse archers in Greece. They're forced to use infantry. But when it comes to infantry versus infantry the Greeks are the..."
"...anvil and hammer okay basically what would happen is like your infantry will lock with the other infantry in place okay it's called the..."
"...such a powerful force and you can't possibly escape once the infantry locks you in place you can't escape then the cavalry comes in..."
"...against the Parthians and the Persians. Okay? Because the Romans are infantry -focused and the Parthians and the Persians are cavalry -focused. Right? They..."
"...strategy. Remember what the anvil and hammer strategy is, where your infantry locks the enemy, the enemy army into place. Okay? It locks in..."
"...air supremacy, they have technological omniscience, satellites, but they don't have infantry. They don't have lots and lots of ships. Therefore, they cannot stop..."
"...your enemy. So, when we say mass forces, we basically mean infantry and armor. Most wars are fought using tanks and soldiers. And the..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
Greek culture did not spread because everyone recognized its beauty.
Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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