Then mecanized warfare talks shall be done as you say. But let me ask you this (last one on this subject) Apparently you were in the army, and so were are you from? and yes this is cheating I have the notions of a need for more defensive strategies, principally in the urban warfare, such as attacks in one town well lead me to reinforce people there and to do active incursions on some other towns definitely enabling me to cut some structure from the guerrilla there, and to occupy with lower casualties, for both sides. A attack focus strategy in urban and modern warfare I think it's wrong, it let you focus on some things, but in the end you had to abandon so much ground just to make the offensive that your middle, as in middle of your territory will be filled of your enemies that could get away in your checkpoints. (sorry if its kind of hard to understand, tried to make as clear as possible (non native english)

But in the matter of gaugamela being a different battle, as in Alexandros being outnumbered, I can't agree with that, almost all of his battles he was outnumbered, maybe in not such fashion (we can't take the account of historians of the period as a truthful and having always the right view of the things, ahhh the anal school just love the guys).

and not putting that the I haven't realised that you people put that the phalanx is maneuverable it's just that I think it's more than that you asserted, the phalanx is not just a formation is a kind of warfare, you have to have the army entirely devoted to that matter, ensuring this you can guarantee that your pike based units are much more maneuverable than that 6m almost to heavy pike let us think.

ps: If Hannah Arendt wasn't dead just could mary her, love discussions.