전투의 3요소가 그리스의 방진에 미친 영향 연구

Abstract

There has been conflicts from the ancient times among the people. They either faced with invasion from outside or invaded others to survive and prosper. The winner survived and the defeated vanished out of history with her legacy. People has been developing warfighting methods to win against the opponent. The method has been evolved from Head-to-Head Warfare, Fire Warfare, Maneuver Warfare to the contemporary Counterinsurgency warfare, though the purpose and principle remains unchanged. In other words, To win the battle, they focus on harmonize the three elements of combat, which is combat power, and time and space, and to do so, able to maximize the effects of combat power. This is the concept of 'Superior-win, Inferior-lose' which is enduring principle of combat. Historically the superior always could not win against the inferior. For example, in the battle of Marathon in B.C. 490, Athens defeated Persia and Thebes won against Sparta in B.C. 371 in the battle of Leuctra. In the previous examples, even though they were inferior as far as the combat power was concerned, they utilized time and space elements with their combat power and maximized effects. In these context, I would analyze how Greek phalanx was formed based on time, space and combat power and applied in the battlefield to win the combat. This essay might be the first step to review the relationship between the three elements of combat power and warfighting method and will be taken as a tool to envision future warfighting modality. If they can anticipate the change of the three elements of combat power, they can induce the future warfighting method based on it