THE ARTOF WARIN THEWESTERNWORLDARCHER JONESIllustrations byJerry A. VanderlindeHARRAPLondonScanned : Mr Blue SkyProofed: Its Not RainingVersion 4.2CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONAncient Warfare Ancient WarfareTACTICS Hand-to-Hand Combat on Foot Combat on Foot with Missiles Mounted Combat Fortification and Siegecraft Greek Heavy Infantry against Persian Light Infantry and Cavalry Greek Light Infantry in Combat with Greek Heavy Infantry Alexanders Conquests with a Complete Combined-Aims Army The Roman Art of War The Romans in Confrontation with the Alexandrian System of Pyrrhus and Hannibal The Roman Victories with the Alexandrian System The Roman Legion Perfected The Romans against the Mounted Parthians Summary of the Capabilities of the Four Weapon SystemsLOGISTICS The Provision of Soldiers and Supplies Logistics Illustrated by Alexanders Persian CampaignSTRATEGY Persisting and Raiding Strategies Distinguished Alexanders Campaign: An Exemplification of Combat, Logistic, and Persisting Strategies Alexanders Encounter with a Raiding Strategy Military Victories without Political Support: Hannibals Experience with the Fabian Strategy A Rare Instance of the Use of Interior Lines of Operations in Ancient Times Caesars Strategy in the Conquest of Gaul Caesars Ilerda Campaign: An Unusual Occurrence of the Turning Movement Caesars Campaign against PompeySUMMARY OF WARFARE ON LAND Summary of Warfare on LandNAVAL WARFARE Naval WarfareTHE DIVERSITY OF THE MEDIEVAL WAYS OF WAR, 200-1200 The Dissolution of the Roman Empire Changes in Military Organisation and Tactical Emphasis Least Effort Exemplified: Byzantine Tactics and Strategy The Stirrups Enhancement of the Effectiveness of Cavalry Western Europes Struggle against Raiders Williams Combined-Arms Army in the Conquest of England Attack and Defence of Fortifications Medieval Tactics Medieval Strategy; The Evesham and Bouvines Campaigns Examples of an Offensive Persisting Strategy against Raiders Combined-Arms Combat in the Crusades Jenghiz Khan and Mongol Warfare Summary of Medieval Tactics and StrategyTHE EMERGENCE OF A NEW COMBINED-ARMS TACTICAL SYNTHESIS, 1200-1600 The French Version of Medieval Warfare Changes in Logistics Changes in Weapons Persisting Strategy and the Completion of the English Conquest of Wales The English Combined-Arms Tactical System in Scotland The Beginning of the Hundred Years War and the Crcy Campaign The Hundred Years War: English Raids and French Persisting Strategy English Persisting Strategy in the Last Phase of the Hundred Years War The Experience of the English Tactical System in Spain The Wagenburg The Swiss Heavy Infantry The Least Effort Warfare of the Italian Condottieri Regional Tactical Systems in Conflict: The French Invasion of Italy The Search for a Combined-Arms Synthesis: Italian Battles, 1511-25 The Spanish Combined-Arms Tactics The New Fortifications Another Influence of Technology on Tactics The Manpower System in 1600 Sixteenth-Century Battles, Campaigns, and Strategy Revolution in Naval Tactics and LogisticsTHE NEW TACTICAL SYNTHESIS IN TRANSITION, 1600-1700 The Logistics of the Thirty Years War Gustavus Adolphuss Development of the Dutch Tactical System Gustavuss Persisting Strategy and Employment of Distraction Gustavuss Exploitation of the Triumph of His Linear System at Breitenfeld Gustavus against Wallenstein: Logistic and Combat Strategies The Impact of Gustavuss Tactics The Logistics of the Late Seventeenth Century Representative Late Seventeenth-Century Campaigns and Battles The Development of Missile Warfare at SeaTHE PRIMACY OF THE LINE OF BAYONETED MUSKETS, 1700-1791 The Bayonet, the Flintlock, and Further Changes in Tactics Eighteenth-Century Logistics The Strategy and Tactics of Marlboroughs Campaigns Persisting Strategy in North Italy The Evolution of the Linear System Tactics and Strategy as Exemplified in the Silesian Wars of Frederick the Great The Seven Years War: Tactics and Strategy in Defence against the Logistic Effects of a Persisting Strategy Changes in Attrition in Relation to the Composition of Armies Significant Developments in French Military Thought Warfare in the Western Hemisphere Warfare at SeaTACTICAL AND STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATION IN THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON, 1791-1815 The Tactics and Strategy of the Opening Campaigns in the North The Advent of General Bonaparte The Strategic Turning Movement of the Marengo Campaign Napoleonic Operations on a Larger Scale: The Strategic Turning Movement of Ulm and Distraction and Concentration at Austerlitz Some Characteristics of Napoleons Campaigns The A