11-11-2007, 12:18 AM
Giannis said:-
hock: )
Oddly enough, Xenophon makes a similar mistake in his Cyropaedia! The Spartan drills he describes would work well for a few thousand men, but not the hordes he attributes to the imaginary Cyrus and his foes.......it is all a question of scale! :wink:
Quote:The truth is that in this video the change from loose to tight formation is in a very wrong way,and we can't see how C favours the process....in fact in an impossible way! The maker of this video has made a huge error...what is possible on a front of 10 ( having each man squeeze up a foot or so...so the furthest man moves 10 feet sideways, patently doesn't work for a phalanx on a front of a thousand ( where the endmost man would have to run a thousand feet sideways...
hock: )Oddly enough, Xenophon makes a similar mistake in his Cyropaedia! The Spartan drills he describes would work well for a few thousand men, but not the hordes he attributes to the imaginary Cyrus and his foes.......it is all a question of scale! :wink:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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