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- echelon - History Forum
Echelon The echelon formation is used when the unit wants to maintain security or observation of one flank and enemy contact is unlikely In the company echelon formation (left or right), the lead platoon positions farthest from the echeloned flank, with each subsequent platoon located to the rear of and outside the platoon in front of it
- Military Career of Alexander the Great, Start to Finish
The Macedonian infantry was good; that asks too much We also see nothing of the sort under Alexander afterwards - attacks en echelon being a quite different animal Alexander may well be on horseback but, on balance, the nature of the language of our only (and poor) literary source, Diodorus, describes, for me, infantry work
- The Spartan defeat at Leuktra and the Theban wedge.
One of several aspects of the battle that interest me is Epaminondas' use of a 'wedge' or echelon formation, the protruding columns arrayed 50 shields deep, this proved devastatingly successful, which indicates that sheer weight mass played a role in phalanx combat, at least in this battle
- After Villers bocage failed what if Monty and Dempsey had chosen . . .
In addition, issuing them to rear echelon units (also done, like how they issued the Sten to rear echelon units) means that the rear echelon guys have the ability to fight back against tanks if one or two tanks get into their rear areas This is actually really important
- Whats Your top 15 best Military generals of all time and why?
Such a general is a great subcommander but should never be considered in the top echelon of generals Richard Gabriel correctly points out that his style of leading from the front is actually a major regression compared to his father Caesar is a much better general than Alexander, he's also light years better than Napoleon
- Ancient Casualties vs Modern Casualties | History Forum
If you mean there are far more support and rear-echelon troops in modern times, sure Of course, that doesn't help the guys on the sharp end, since they take most of the hits
- Famous Cowards - History Forum
After Gheluvelt, Hitler served as a courier, usually outside the firing range of artillery and machine guns, embedded in the relatively comfortable rear echelon, a place where soldiers even had set amounts of time off
- Pompey Magnus vs Scipio Africanus | Page 2 | History Forum
There likely wasn't a gap as is sometimes displayed, but that the wings to the center were refused en echelon, such that the formation was more like a concave Kinda like a reverse wedge The sources say that Hasdrubal Gisco could not move his center, precisely because Africanus' Iberians, while still refused, were apparently close enough to exploit any weakness or gap there If he had
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