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| Grand Strategy of Old Kingdon Egypt |
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| Defensive but militaristic strategy, relied on geography to stay isolated. |
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| Middle Kingdom Grand Strategy |
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| Strategy that used national and private armies to conduct search and destroy campaigns against potential invaders and to defend fortified borders. |
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| Diverse force including chariots, siege warriors, cavalry. |
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| Large 300,000 person army with infantry in center and cavalry on flanks, however, no heavy infantry. |
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| A group on spearmen several ranks deep fighting as one |
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| Battle where Greeks (Spartans) stop Persians for a time |
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| Naval battle where much of Persian invading force is sunk by storms and Greeks |
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| Naval battle where Greek fleet sinks many Persian ships after Persian sack of Athens |
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| First stage of Peloponnesian War; small, indecisive conflicts with Athens attacking at sea and Sparta invading Atica. Highlights the breaking of hoplyte supremacy and introduces peltasts and light infantry into Greek way of war with social and legal reprocussions. |
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| Second phase of Peloponnesian War; Athens invades Sicily to attack Spartan protected Syracuse, collossal failure for Athenians. |
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| Defensive system with a small, mobile army that would deliver harsh, quck reprocussions for disobediance. Real protection comes from threat of violence and client system. |
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| Weakness of Roman military |
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| No missle or cavalry forces to speak of |
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| Defensive system with walls, trenches, and patrols at border to stop low level threats with larger mobile forces in rear to react to invasions or proactively break up massing enemy formations |
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| Small, strong forts build along perimeter, cities get walls, farms get walls to withstand siege. |
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