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This 10 page paper provides an overview of strategies used for land missions throughout history. The paper begins in ancient times and ends in the present. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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out, most everything would be gone and man would have to start life over again without the benefit of technology. Others predict a more dismal fate. While nations have sophisticated
weapons as well as nuclear power, war and particular land warfare has been with man always. Going back to ancient times, there was war and in modern times, war persists.
Man has never gotten beyond that. Yet, while that is the case, strategy and tactical ideas have changed somewhat. Throughout history, there have some military leaders who have
never been defeated in battle like Alexander, Caesar, Wellington and Zhukov (Brooks, 1997). Alexander the Great for example was the only general to have won in set, piece battle,
guerrilla warfare as well as pursuit and exploitation (1997). What makes men great military leaders is their ingenuity and great plans. There are several theories of war and tactics and
ways to win and while these have changed over time to an extent, the basic ideas remain somewhat similar. Kimmel (2002) explains that prior to the fall of Rome,
and until the invention of the long pike and gunpowder, highly trained warriors of privileged birth had been the ideal for battle. In the late Middle
Ages, two developments in respect to the conduct of warfare had been combined to reduce the cavalier to the more prosaic cavalryman (2002). The Swiss did find that soldiers were
only moderately trained in the utilization of 15-foot-long, steel-tipped pikes in massed formations that were able to easily overcome the opposing knights (2002). The increase in the use of firearms
and armor-piercing bullets did allow even peasants to become knights (2002). In effect, the progress would allow for more soldiers. Ironically, today, the privileged classes are more likely to be
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