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From the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC to the defense of Kyiv in 2022, the history of warfare has been determined by more than weapons and numbers.

Leadership, morale, innovation, deception, and timing have repeatedly defined the outcome of conflict, sometimes allowing smaller forces to

defeat seemingly overwhelming enemies.

I guess the last time you were on the pod, it was just over a year ago for Hiroshima, but a new book out this month, a fab topic.

And Covering a hell of a lot of ground, literally.

So this is Battle, the moments that transformed warfare from ancient Greece to Ukraine.

40 case studies by my count of military history.

My take so far is it's just been, it's almost kind of like an interplay between, sorry, I'm sorry for the words, I guess.

There's a lot going on in Banff that is ultimately almost like a creative show for the gods.

They're just kind of, and the bed seems, The men seem to understand that to a degree, but not to the fullest extent of the picture that we get of what's going on as far as the gods are concerned as well.

There's this interplay going on on the ground with the gods and then the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon and the Trojans, kind of where I'm at so far.

Japanese warrior combat, as it had developed over the previous centuries, was built around individual performance.

Battles began with formal declarations.

Warriors identified themselves and their lineage before engaging, and single combat between named opponents carried significant honour and practical importance within the warrior value system.

The Mongol forces at Hakata Bay did not operate this way at all.

Join hosts Bang and Dang as they take you battle by battle through the most divisive time in American history.

Welcome to Battles of the American Civil War.

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So which one do you think is better for the different grand doctrines?

I like Grand Battle Plan here, and that's to gain terrain trait XP gain.

That's extremely powerful.

If you can grind that and get the right terrain traits, or just gaining a terrain trait is extremely valuable.

So my favorite there would be Grand Battle Plan and Theater Training.

right and the

possibility to get 50 chance for brilliant strategist also for new officers if you're gonna grind a new one that's also something i have used as a minor yeah not minor person it's different

Because if you're playing, especially a minor, that starts with generals without brilliant strategist, then you really want to get it.

In our previous episode, Dr. Kelly Devries discussed Joan of Arc as a military leader.

One of her greatest contributions to the ultimate victory of the French in the Hundred Years' War was to restore French morale, which after 14 years, had still not recovered from its shattering defeat in the Battle of Agincourt, fought on October 25th in the year 1415.

Now, we may be getting things a bit ass-backwards by going back to Agincourt.

But today, Dr. Michael Livingston, Kelly's partner in Medievalists.net fine podcast about medieval warfare, Bow and Blade, is going to tell us about the Battle of Agincourt.

But first, a word from Shakespeare.

Where is the king?

But he clearly believes that labeling this project as the Agincourt project lends a cachet to it, lends some gravity to it.

And that, again, has to do with Shakespeare.

And he finds Don John of Austria.

He essentially uses the Battle of Lepanto as a Trojan horse to attack the apathy of 1911 Europe.

Precisely.

Now -

He was shaking below deck.

His commander ordered him to stay in bed.

If Miguel de Cervantes had listened to reason, stayed in the hold, and survived the Battle of Lepanto without a scratch, he likely would have remained a career soldier.

He would have just stayed in the army.

Since the dawn of recorded time soldiers have marched into battle, but now US troops in Vietnam became winged like the gods leaping into the skies and descending from the clouds in a blaze of fiery thunder allowing US forces an exceptional air mobility to engage the enemy in large set piece battles.

Let's look at two of those battles.

First the Battle of the Batangan Peninsula.

In September of 1965 Marine General Lewis Walt ordered his third marine amphibious force out of their base at Chu Lai on the coast of Vietnam with orders to attack the first Viet Cong regiment on the Batangan Peninsula in Quang Ngai Province near Da Nang.

In amphibious landings on the peninsula these two marine battalions boxed the Viet Cong resident be- re- regiment between them leaving no route of escape.

If the US military could find and fix the enemy, its superior firepower would destroy them.

But, but, but, but the North Vietnamese Army learned that same lesson and in the year to come would not make the same mistake.

Our next major battle that was determinative of the course of the war was the famous Battle at Ia Drang.