Logistics of Alexander the Great in His Campaign

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Alexander the Great is well known for his tactics on the battlefield. Some aspect that is often forgotten is that victory on the battlefield requires well supplied troops. This is especially true, because Alexander's conquest covered a vast area.
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Seibert, Jakob: Die Logistik der Feldzüge Alexanders des Großen; in: Vorträge zur Militärgeschichte: Die Bedeutung der Logisitik für die militärische Führung von der Antike bis in die neueste Zeit. (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (MGFA)).
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@UltraMegaSquirrel 8 лет назад

This video is fantastic. So many popular sources talk about Alexander's tactics that you'd think that's all that matters. But as Napoleon said, an army marches on its stomach. Without logistics nothing else is possible. The sophistication of the Macedonian army's logistics is one of the main reasons Alexander was able to do what he did. I'd really like to know how much of that came from Philip II, though. Philip's professionalization of the Macedonian army really seems to be the foundation of Alexander's success.

@RealBonnieBlue 7 лет назад

Great video, only the Greeks weren't Mercenaries. Alexander was Hegemon of a united Greek army with the exception of Sparta. The League of Corinth, also known as the Hellenic League was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BCE/337 BCE that united to take on Persia. The Greeks that were mercenaries were fighting on the foreign Persian side. As Arrian records in a speech Alexander made, "There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay and not much of it at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and, our hearts will be in it."

@TheLoyalOfficer 8 лет назад

1 Persian saw this video.

@Bryce-yw8hf 7 лет назад

Tactics win battles logistics win wars.

@oxjmanxo 8 лет назад

Which Alexandria are you talking about? The dude loved to name cities after himself.

@rickyg8462 7 лет назад

People talk about Alexander being overrated and reckless...aside from being history's greatest besieger and the finest of calvary captain...he was master of logistics...an army does not successfully campaign from the Peloponnese all the way into India by accident

@jitendrasinghrajput6414 3 года назад

His troops wouldn't carry on 😂😂😂😂

@firstchushingura 7 лет назад

Before Philip and Alexander, the Persians under Darius I and Xerxes had been repelled by a smaller force - these men of Greece fought unlike anyone and anything the Persians had ever experienced. By the time of Alexander, the fighting force that took him across both Greece and Persia had been perfected. He crossed Asia into India, often fighting a force that outnumbered him. His use of the phalanx and cavalry, combined with an innate sense of command, put his enemy on the defensive, enabling him to never lose a battle. His memory would live on and his determination brought the Hellenic culture to Asia. He built great cities and changed forever the customs of a people.

@nayhem 2 года назад

The Algorithm is picking up a lot of videos Putin apparently didn't watch.

@poop75018 7 лет назад

Logistics is the most essential part of warfare. Thats what the US is so good at it, they excel at logistics.

@crwydryny 7 лет назад

the first city founded was called alexandria.... followed by alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria alexandria alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria and iskenderun (arabic for alexandria) and of course kandahar (persian for alexandria) :D

@johngurlides9157 5 лет назад

A couple of comments on the subject:

@therob4371 7 лет назад

"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics."

@anthonygreenfield123 3 года назад

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@vitoc8454 8 лет назад

Also it was said that Alexander encouraged/required his soldiers to shave (copper razors were found at archaeological sites) because

@michaelfoster3232 8 лет назад

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@slick4401 6 лет назад

The principle of Logistics having equal or even superior importance to tactics and strategy, also applies to peacetime endeavors. A successful enterprise of any sort - business, political, humanitarian, scientific, cultural - relies on the adequate and constant prevision, production, assigning and provision of essential supplies in the quantities and times needed for the desired outcome of the endeavor. It is amazing how even modest logical improvements to the use of resources in our daily life dramatically improve our chances of success.

@JayM409 2 года назад

An excellent book on the subject is 'Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army,' by Donald W. Engels

@Endorphins27 7 лет назад

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