Combined Arms

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Gentleman,

Not being anywhere near the level of knowledge that you folks have, I can only offer my humble opinion of combined arms.

The way we define it today is no different that the way it was defined in days of old. Only the definitions and terms have changed.our mobile infantry today is mobilized by vehicles, planes, helicopters. In ancient time, horses, chariots, elephants.

Infantry is infantry. Grunts who use their legs. Also, different types of weapon formations. Today we have hand help rpg's, automatic weapons, in the past slingers, swords, spears, pikes.

The soldiers of yesterday are no different than today in that they were and are there to fight and kill. The weapons have changed not the soldier.

So the question I ask is then: Did combined arms start when a commander used slingers with swordsman, or swordsman with archers, or when the commander choose to use infantry with mobile infantry.

In my opinion the delivery system has not changed. A human being choosing to kill another.
Only the weapons has changed.

So after wandering around a while, I think that the combined arms started when a commander choose to use different types of weapons such as slingers, bowman, spears and such.

My best,