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Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of
military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the
ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of
Philip II, Alexander the Great, and his Successors. It concentrates
on the introduction and development of individual units and their
tactical coordination and use in battle in what is termed "combined
arms": the effective integration of different unit types into one
cohesive battle plan and army allowing each unit to focus on its
strengths without having to worry about its weaknesses. This volume
traces the development, and argues for the vital importance, of the
use of combined arms in Greek warfare from the Archaic period
onwards, especially concerning the Macedonian hegemony, through to
its developmental completion in the form of fully "integrated
warfare" at the battle of Ipsus in 301 BCE. It argues crucially
that warfare should never be viewed in isolation in individual
states, regions, conflicts or periods but taken as a collective
whole tracing the mutual influence of other cultures and the
successful innovations that always result. Wrightson analyses Greek
and Macedonian warfare through the lens of modern military
theoretical terminology, making this study accessible to those with
a general interest in military history as well as those studying
this specific period.
Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of
military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the
ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of
Philip II, Alexander the Great, and his Successors. It concentrates
on the introduction and development of individual units and their
tactical coordination and use in battle in what is termed "combined
arms": the effective integration of different unit types into one
cohesive battle plan and army allowing each unit to focus on its
strengths without having to worry about its weaknesses. This volume
traces the development, and argues for the vital importance, of the
use of combined arms in Greek warfare from the Archaic period
onwards, especially concerning the Macedonian hegemony, through to
its developmental completion in the form of fully "integrated
warfare" at the battle of Ipsus in 301 BCE. It argues crucially
that warfare should never be viewed in isolation in individual
states, regions, conflicts or periods but taken as a collective
whole tracing the mutual influence of other cultures and the
successful innovations that always result. Wrightson analyses Greek
and Macedonian warfare through the lens of modern military
theoretical terminology, making this study accessible to those with
a general interest in military history as well as those studying
this specific period.
This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop
on parallelism in inference systems held in Germany in December
1990. The topicof the workshop is still rather young and several
papers in the book are overview articles intended to provide a
first orientation toward some of the more intensively investigated
subtopics. The main part of the book is a compilation of research
papers on parallelization in special domains ofinference such as
rewriting, automatic reasoning, logic programming, andconnectionist
inference. Appended to the book is a collection of short project
summaries received in response to a worldwide email call. The book
is intended primarily for researchers working on inference systems
who are interested in parallelizing their systems.
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