Phalanx formation

The 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (4ABCT) proud tradition of excellence throughout its history took a turn for the worse with its recent deployment and redeployment issues from Afghanistan. An organizational change within 4ABCT is paramount in order to return to its storied heritage of excellence by being a contributing member of the division. In order to complete the change from its current state to a well-respected unit, I would execute a blended version of the seven-step vision process…

Over the last 1.5 years, the 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) has undergone significant change. Following a nine month deployment to Afghanistan, the Brigade appears to be overcome by stress, fatigue, leadership, and ethics issues. While many might categorize these as normal post deployment occurrences, they appear to run much deeper. The events of the previous deployment coupled with the death of the Brigade Commander, Brigade Sergeant Major and a Battalion Commander appear to be the…

Ultimately, the phalanx was key in Sparta’s success as a small military force as it allowed them to fight bigger armies in close quarters. No matter how skilled the army was if they did not have effective military tactics they would be unable to win especially if they went against an army with many missile troops as the phalanx is what protected the men from the arrows. However, maintaining the phalanx formation took a large amount of discipline as each man was key in its success as they had to…

Greek battle Strategy was the Phalanx formation. “The phalanx formation was a close-rank, dense grouping of warriors armed with long spears and interlocking shields.” This was an effective system as no opponent could break through the shields and that’s even if they could get past the spears sticking out from the wall. This formation was also effective as it could be used in multiple situations. It could be used in attack as they could move forward while keeping formation and this would allow…

an expert strategist, especially in battle formation. This fact is supported by the Macedonian victory in his last major battle, in which he tricked Porus (the Indian king) into battling some of his soldiers, while the others attacked from another side. The phalanx is another good example of his strategic skills. The phalanx was one of the best defense formations at the time, and many of the Macedonian formations that were formulated by him, had the phalanx as the trump card. His leadership…

a complex formation called the Phalanx, whom used cohesion and strength to dominate the Persians. While the Persians were innovative and well-led, they still did not beat the Greeks and lost the war. The Persian Wars were a major contribution to the unification of Greece, which leads to the uprising and domination of the Greeks. To elaborate on, the Persians and the Greeks had different techniques of fighting. The Athenians, a subcategory of the Greeks, had a defined, complex formation called…

hardening process of infants, and years of military training in the Agoge. The Persian Army was no match for Spartan military tactics of the phalanx formation and Spartan weaponry of spear and shield. Leonidas’s terrain analysis of Thermopylae gave a great advantage to the Spartans by forcing the Persians to funnel towards the narrow middle gate into the phalanx. However, on the third day, the last of the Spartans were defeated. Ephialtes son of Eurydemos, a Greek man from Anticyra, informed…

river named Evrotas. Sparta was a city-state or a separate state that is governed by itself that is also not part of a larger unit. Sparta became so strong because of its military formation called the phalanx. Spartiate citizens or pure spartans would have to be part of this military. The phalanx was a battle formation in which, soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder holding their shields overlapping each other, and moving in unison. Sparta had been challenged against the Athens which had begun a…

Ancient Greece paper Two Throughout history, there have been many cultures that have influenced todays societies, Ancient Greece being one of them. Violence, and warfare throughout history have seemed inevitable. Some of the most famous, and influential warfare throughout history stems from Ancient Greece. As everyday economic resources increased, Ancient Greek city-states stopped performing smaller scale raids for resources, livestock, or grain, and began building “armies of foot soldiers,”…

They used their traditional phalanx formation with their hoplites moving as one to create an impenetrable wall. There is a generally consensus of the number of the Greek and Persian army’s. Histories say there was approximately ten thousand Greek Hoplites and the Persian outnumbered them…