Persian Invasion of 480 BC - articles

[Aryaman2]

1) I don´t know if from reading Wikipedia article you realize that those armies were spread on a front of more than one thousand Kms, tracing their supplies from different lines.

But that is not the same as their not constituting a field army.

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Well, to me that is a very important point in discussion. Maybe you have another notion of what a field army is, to me it is a force moving together and extracting supply from the same source. The limits on a field army defined as such are very different from those ona global army, they are basically logistics, while on the global army, as posted earlier, would be financial, political, etc.