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Bismarck

September 24, 2012, 05:51:39 PM
Osprey's two-volume Medieval Tactics sheds new light on the role of infantry vs cavalry. Calvery was not as supreme as earlier authors indicate while infantry wasn't an ill-disciplined secondary element. The book also puts paid to Hanson's claims of decisive battles and continuous Western supremacy.
Jim Cobb

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September 24, 2012, 06:22:24 PM
Just a comment, Jim, not a criticism, but Oman's Art of War in the Middle Ages, mentions a number of battles that infantry shone in.
He is usually denigrated for being Victorian, and being passe as new research emerges.
I personally, think he did great with what he could find, and much of his work still holds up.
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Bismarck

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September 24, 2012, 09:00:15 PM
Oh, I love Oman; I've an original of his Art of War in the Middle Ages, the two-volume re-write and all of his Peninsular War. Other historians are not as good.
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