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European Warfare
Gordon Phillips
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03/12/2008

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Grand Strategy of Old Kingdon Egypt
Definition
Defensive but militaristic strategy, relied on geography to stay isolated.
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Middle Kingdom Grand Strategy
Definition
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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Sargon II
Definition
Assyrian warrior king
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Assyrian army
Definition
Diverse force including chariots, siege warriors, cavalry.
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Persian army
Definition
Large 300,000 person army with infantry in center and cavalry on flanks, however, no heavy infantry.
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Hoplite phalanx
Definition
A group on spearmen several ranks deep fighting as one
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Hoplon
Definition
Greek spear
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Thermopylae
Definition
Battle where Greeks (Spartans) stop Persians for a time
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Artemisium
Definition
Naval battle where much of Persian invading force is sunk by storms and Greeks
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Salamis
Definition
Naval battle where Greek fleet sinks many Persian ships after Persian sack of Athens
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Archidamian War
Definition
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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Sicilian Expedition
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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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Julio - Claudian system
Definition
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
Definition
No missle or cavalry forces to speak of
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Defense-in-depth
Definition
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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Hard-point defenses
Definition
Small, strong forts build along perimeter, cities get walls, farms get walls to withstand siege.
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