Outraged Americans are saying members of the Trump family should also be expected to enlist if soldiers are called up to a full-scale war in a military draft.
Sounds like a draft is being planned for the occupation of Iran, aka Vietnam v.4
Not really. Firstly, knights were heavy cavalry. By the time they’re walking in battle shit’s gone sideways and there’s a decent chance they’re injured either by whatever knocked them off their horse, falling off their horse, or the whole process of their horse getting injured or killed and going down. And in that vein, the pointy sticks are about stopping the horse, not the knight. A pike wall (as well as fortifications like ditches) creates areas of denial for knights and danger to their horses. A bunch of poor people with long sticks are how you stop knights.
Medieval warfare in open fields was largely about archer volleys attempting to wear each other down and to damage pike walls enough that they break formation allowing knights to ride in and rout (basically come in and kill everyone). Pike formations outlasted armored knights with the rise in quality and availability of firearms simply being integrated into their formations. This is how you get the Renaissance era walls of people lining up to shoot each other.
At least that’s what I remember from various learning of it, definitely not an expert.
Not really. Firstly, knights were heavy cavalry. By the time they’re walking in battle shit’s gone sideways and there’s a decent chance they’re injured either by whatever knocked them off their horse, falling off their horse, or the whole process of their horse getting injured or killed and going down. And in that vein, the pointy sticks are about stopping the horse, not the knight. A pike wall (as well as fortifications like ditches) creates areas of denial for knights and danger to their horses. A bunch of poor people with long sticks are how you stop knights.
Medieval warfare in open fields was largely about archer volleys attempting to wear each other down and to damage pike walls enough that they break formation allowing knights to ride in and rout (basically come in and kill everyone). Pike formations outlasted armored knights with the rise in quality and availability of firearms simply being integrated into their formations. This is how you get the Renaissance era walls of people lining up to shoot each other.
At least that’s what I remember from various learning of it, definitely not an expert.