Combined Arms Tactics

ID: combined_arms_tactics
Era: Classical
First known date: -330 (decade)
Region: Macedonian and wider late Classical Greek battlefield systems
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

The integrated use of different military units (heavy infantry, cavalry, skirmishers, archers) to achieve battlefield superiority.

Core metadata

Combined arms warfare in ancient Greece: from Homer to Alexander the Great and his successors (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020, review) • Supports: node
Locator: The review covers a monograph explicitly scoped to combined-arms warfare in ancient Greece through Alexander and his successors, matching the node concept.
Alexander the Great (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: node
Locator: Britannica anchors Alexander and Macedonian campaigning in the late fourth century BCE, supporting the decade-level chronology for mature Macedonian combined-arms practice.

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Horseback Riding (horseback_riding)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Horseback Riding provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship (Science Advances, 2023, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Sibudu Bow-and-Arrow Use (archery)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Archery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Antiquity, 2010, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Organized Military Formations (organized_military_formations)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Organized Military Formations provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.

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