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Air cavalry, originally sky cavalry [17] is a United States Army term that refers to helicopter-equipped units that perform reconnaissance, screening, security, and economy-of-force missions. The term and unit designation properly only refers to those squadrons (i.e., battalion-level organizations), and some independent troops (i.e., companies ...
Instead, Phokas revised existing tactics by combining them with his own experience and observations. Many of the infantry tactics from Praecepta Militaria were likely based on those found in Syntaxis Armatorum Quadrata (ca. 950). Even more influential was the Sylloge Tacticorum (compiled ca. 950), which was a collection of tactics and strategems.
The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurikios, from the end of the 6th century, describes the cavalry tactics, organization, and equipment of the East Roman army towards the end of this period. [1] The De re militari of Vegetius , probably from the beginning of the 5th century, calls for reform of the West Roman army, which was similar to the East ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Battle of Muret (1213) and the Cavalry Tactics in the 13th Century. ... Marquis de, History of the War in the Alps, ...
The text consists of 12 chapters or "books" on various aspects of strategy and tactics, employed by the Byzantine army during the 6th and 7th century A.D. Its contents primarily focus on cavalry tactics and formation and several chapters elaborate on matters of infantry, siege warfare, logistics, education and training and movement.
The Battle of Mikatagahara was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns and one of "the most notable demonstrations of cavalry tactics" of the Sengoku period. The battle was also Tokugawa Ieyasu's most decisive defeat, featuring the effective annihilation of Ieyasu's army and the daimyo himself only narrowly escaping death ...
The Tactica elaborates on a wide variety of issues, such as infantry and cavalry formations, drills, siege and naval warfare etc. It is written in a legislative form of language and comprises 20 Constitutions (Διατάξεις Diataxeis) [3] and an Epilogue and is concluded by 12 additional chapters, the latter mainly focusing on ancient tactics.
The Cantabrian also used light cavalry, and some of their tactics would be adopted by the Roman army. Examples include the circulus cantabricus , a circular formation of javelin-throwing horsemen, and the cantabricus impetus , a massive frontal attack against enemy lines with the goal of breaching them, as described by Flavius Arrianus .