Best Military Strategy of its Time

[Rosacrux redux]

So do you pet Alexander a lot .

Alexander does not fit into the defination of modern warfare - no matter how one attempts to state it.

Yah, modern warfare maybe... but he was modern in his times, no?

[LeftEyeNine]

The terms "strategy" and "tactics" are commonly used in discipline of bussiness.

In business terms, you play your tactics to reach your goal - which is defined briefly as your strategy.

Strategy is a general purpose - say, "We will grow by increasing our market share by %10 by the end of this year"

And when you increase your promotion expenditures or buy some smaller company in the market to enlarge your market share or any other "tricks" to reach your strategy defined, you are counted to be applying tactics.

And I bet that conquering Istanbul in order to gain geographical, religious and psychologic advantage was the strategy of Ottomans in their growing times. And building of Anadolu Hisari (the fortress built on the Anatolian Side before the conquest - I do not know how you call it) to control the sea around Istanbul was a tactic to achieve the strategy.

So I may mention the famous Turan (or Hilal- translated as Crescent ) formation in which the frontmen of the Turkish army used to make a fake setback in order to persuade the opposing army to follow them, while the mounted wings of the army were covering the rivals around and from the back. The end was a total demolition of the caged opposing army.

And this is the Turan tactic, I must say.

[master of the puppets]

i have to say one of the most effective is the roman infantry block, i forget if it had an exact name (its not the testudo) but it was just a solid mass of soldiers, shoulder to shoulder back to front and a hundred deep and a hundred wide. it was nearly unbreakable by cavalry infantry or archers. one of itsa main flaws was its sheer size. it could not be menuevered so it was simply a defensive tactic.

[Papewaio]

A hundred deep and a hundred wide?

That is 10,000 men... two legions.